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over the past 25 years Hubble has told
us a story of creation destruction and a
vast new Mysteries that beckon our
curiosity but putting it in space long
seemed an Impossible Dream even to those
who took on the
challenge
I started out in Optical astronomy and
spectroscopy but as a woman in my
generation I could not get tenure at a
research
institution in 1959 when NASA was formed
one of the men there asked me if I knew
anyone who would like to set up a
program in space
astronomy and I decided that the idea of
influencing astronomy for 50 years was
was just more than I could resist and so
I took the job astronomer Nancy Roman is
known as the mother of the Hubble she
worked on its design and development for
nearly 25 years if I brought anything to
it it was perseverance and belief that
it that it was
possible the idea of a Space Telescope
was first seriously proposed in
1946 by Princeton scientist Lyman
Spitzer he was the scientific Visionary
and Roman was the force that pushed this
Vision forward decades before the
technology was up to the
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task even into the mid-60s just getting
a rocket safely into space was a
challenge there were a lot of
failures we were babies learning how to
walk and uh we didn't know was succeed
babies fall down and we did
too but however far-fetched at the time
the lure of getting a telescope above
the Distortion of the Earth's atmosphere
was
strong