Hubble Space Telescope Named After 2021. 25 2021 151 PM UTC Updated Aug. Webb is best known for leading the Apollo program a series of lunar missions that ultimately.
At a budget-busting 10 billion USD it will also be the most expensive. James Webb telescope successor of Hubble set to make history. However 1983 would earn its place in history for naming the telescope after the notable astronomer Edwin P.
CNNIn April of 1990 the space shuttle Discovery lifted the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit just a few hundred miles above the Earths surface.
At least five to 10 years of observing are planned. JWST is the costliest astronomy project having spent nearly three decades in the making. Named after the man who led NASA during the space-trailblazing 1960s the 7-ton James Webb Space Telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble. Hubble the observatory is the first major optical telescope to be.