[00:10.09]What is the special importance of a telescope in space?
[00:16.61]The Hubble telescope was launched into space by NASA on April 20, 1990 at a cost of over a billion dollars.
[00:28.18]Right from the start there was trouble with the Hubble.
[00:33.34]The pictures it sent us were very disappointing because its main mirror was faulty!
[00:40.81]NASA is now going to put the telescope right,
[00:44.84]so it will soon be sending up four astronauts to repair it.
[00:50.70]The shuttle Endeavour will be taking the astronauts to the Hubble.
[00:55.83]A robot-arm from the Endeavour will grab the telescope and hold it while the astronauts make the necessary repairs.
[01:05.85]Of course, 
[01:07.24]the Hubble is above the earth's atmosphere,
[01:10.74]so it will soon be sending us the clearest pictures of the stars and distant galaxies that we have ever seen.
[01:20.23]The Hubble will tell us a great deal about the age and size of the universe.
[01:27.24]By the time you read this, 
[01:29.88]the Hubble's eagle eye will have sent us thousands and thousands of wonderful pictures.