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Hubble Launch - The Telescope That Almost Never Left the Ground

Hubble Launch - The Telescope That Almost Never Left the Ground

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Griffin Rowe explores how NASA's Hubble Space Telescope nearly failed to launch, enduring seven years of delays, the Challenger disaster, and $6 million monthly storage costs before finally reaching orbit in 1990. This episode chronicles humanity's stubborn pursuit of unobstructed cosmic vision above Earth's atmospheric distortion.

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