Introduction
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space by NASA in 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. This allowed many advances in Astronomical science. The telescope itself can see light years away from earth, and by using very detailed and complex machines, instruments and relays, clear pictures back to Earth. The length of the telescope is 43.5 ft (13.2 m), it weighs 24,500 lb (11,110 kg) and has a maximum diameter of 14 ft (4.2 m). The telescope was named after an American astronomer named Edwin P. Hubble (1889—1953), who confirmed the fact that the universe is constantly expanding, creating the base of the Big Bang theory. The telescope was launched on the 24th of April and was deployed the next day. The launch alone cost roughly $1.5 billion American dollars. The telescope is solar powered and works like a regular, yet much more complicated house held telescope. It moves around the Earth at about 17,500 mph (28,000 kph, or 8 km/s). The Hubble can complete a full rotation of the Earth in about 97 minutes.