Hubble Telescope Repair

The optical problems of the Hubble Space Telescope were corrected by a shuttle mission in December 1993. This put it back in service in time to image the impacts on Jupiter by comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. In early 1997 there was a second servicing mission.

Views of the repair mission
NASA image.
Wide Field and Planetary Camera
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