The Hubble was Almost a $15B Disaster

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 https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.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: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/content/about-hubble-servicing-missions-sm1 https://hubblesite.org/mission-and-telescope/servicing-missions https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/a_pdf/news/facts/HST_MissionSuccess.pdf https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/a_pdf/news/facts/ServicingHistory.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-61.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SCRS_FS_HTML.html https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/html/STS61.htm https://youtu.be/2X0Hghl3SYk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/story/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3406079.stm https://www.space.com/29206-how-will-hubble-space-telescope-die.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SCRS_FS_HTML.html https://www.ball.com/aerospace/newsroom/features/hubbles-vision https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=20580 https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-61/mission-sts-61.html https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/Undated/HST_-_Solar_Array_Replacement_-_Hubble Image Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/story/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-marks-30-years-in-space-with-tapestry-of-blazing-starbirth https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/index.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Space_Telescope_Primary_Mirror_(27712253283).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Engineers_inspecting_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope%27s_Primary_Mirror_8109563.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Working_on_Hubble%27s_Main_Mirror_in_1990_22_lg_web.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hubble_Space_Telescope_in_orbit.tif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-109_power_control_unit_of_Hubble.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kathryn_Thornton_replacing_the_solar_arrays_of_the_Hubble_space_telescope_during_the_STS-61_mission_9400261.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1993_sts61_liftoff.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS061-93-031_HST_rendezvous.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS061-105-004_EVA3.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS061-105-019_Musgrave_EVA5.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS061-99-001_HST_new_arrays.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:COSTAR_2.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upgrading_Hubble_during_SM1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronaut_Hoffman_held_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope_WF_PC1_during_the_STS-61_mission_15_lg_web.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Solar_Array_Deployment_STS-31.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/44404082220 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/images/this-week-in-nasa-history-second-hubble-servicing-mission-feb-21-1997.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronaut_Story_Musgrave_during_First_Hubble_Servicing_Spacewalk_(28049536261).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_Hubble%27s_orbit.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-final-hubble-servicing-mission