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Holy shit. The Hubble Space Telescope, photographer in space, BY A SATELLITE ALSO IN SPACE (Happy 36th birthday, Hubble!)

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A couple of years ago I interviewed one of the guys who fixed the problem with Hubble's mirror. No, not THAT problem, the EARLIER problem that nobody really knows about. He did it because they had already fixed a similar problem with a KH-11 2.4-meter diameter mirror.