Hubble Quotes

We appreciate your patience in hanging in there with us. We hope you have a great mission to Hubble, and we'll see you back here before the next millennium. - Dave King

These sorts of results show how spectacular and unique Hubble is. - Garth Illingworth

These observations of the moon have been a challenging and highly successful technological achievement for NASA and the Hubble team, since the telescope was not originally designed for lunar observations. The images will inform both scientific studies of lunar geology and future decisions on further lunar exploration. - Jennifer Wiseman

There are a lot of people that are surprised that Hubble can even look at planets in our solar system, because they think of Hubble as looking back to the beginning of time or at things billions of times fainter than the eye can see. But indeed, about 15 percent of the time Hubble spends observing our own planets. - Ed Weiler

The star we observed is so close to Polaris that we needed every available bit of Hubble's resolution to see it. - Nancy Evans

The projected life of Hubble batteries has been extended. We used to say we thought they were good until 2008-2009. Now we're thinking 2010. We think Hubble will remain serviceable until well into 2010...based on latest projections and test data we have. - Preston Burch

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum. - Claude Nicollier

The Mars Pathfinder (landing in 1997) caught everyone's attention. Hubble photos have just captured the public imagination and had maybe more magazine covers than even John Glenn. - Lori Garver