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Description: The Hubble Space Telescope has been sending home images of the universe for more than thirty years, but none of its work would have been possible without the many servicing missions that kept it up to date. Hosted By: Hank Green SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: patreon.com/SciShowSpace ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: GrowingViolet, Jason A Saslow, Heriberto Bustos, and David Brooks! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: scishowtangents.org Facebook: facebook.com/scishow Twitter: twitter.com/scishow Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: nasa.gov/content/about-hubble-servicing-missions-sm1 hubblesite.org/mission-and-telescope/servicing-missions asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/a_pdf/news/facts/HST_MissionSuccess.pdf asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/a_pdf/news/facts/ServicingHistory.pdf nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-61.html nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SCRS_FS_HTML.html science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/html/STS61.htm youtu.be/2X0Hghl3SYk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61 nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/story/index.html news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3406079.stm space.com/29206-how-will-hubble-space-telescope-die.html nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SCRS_FS_HTML.html ball.com/aerospace/newsroom/features/hubbles-vision heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=20580 science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-61/mission-sts-61.html esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/Undated/HST_-_Solar_Array_Replacement_-_Hubble Image Sources: nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/story/index.html nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-marks-30-years-in-space-with-tapestry-of-blazing-starbirth nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/index.html commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Space_Telescope_Primary_Mirror_(27712253283).jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Engineers_inspecting_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope%27s_Primary_Mirror_8109563.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Working_on_Hubble%27s_Main_Mirror_in_1990_22_lg_web.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hubble_Space_Telescope_in_orbit.tif commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-109_power_control_unit_of_Hubble.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kathryn_Thornton_replacing_the_solar_arrays_of_the_Hubble_space_telescope_during_the_STS-61_mission_9400261.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1993_sts61_liftoff.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS061-93-031_HST_rendezvous.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS061-105-004_EVA3.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS061-105-019_Musgrave_EVA5.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS061-99-001_HST_new_arrays.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:COSTAR_2.png commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upgrading_Hubble_during_SM1.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronaut_Hoffman_held_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope_WF_PC1_during_the_STS-61_mission_15_lg_web.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Solar_Array_Deployment_STS-31.jpg flickr.com/photos/gsfc/44404082220 nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/images/this-week-in-nasa-history-second-hubble-servicing-mission-feb-21-1997.html commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronaut_Story_Musgrave_during_First_Hubble_Servicing_Spacewalk_(28049536261).jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_Hubble%27s_orbit.jpg nasa.gov/image-feature/the-final-hubble-servicing-mission