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SUMMARY:Hubble\, the Astronomer\, the Telescope\, and the Science
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DESCRIPTION:Claude Nicollier\nClaude Nicollier has been a European Space A
 gency astronaut for nearly 30 years. He first graduated in physics (Bachel
 or) and astrophysics (Master)\, and then earned the title of Swiss Air For
 ce pilot\, airline pilot and test pilot.\nHe was a member of the first gro
 up of ESA astronauts selected in 1978. He was then assigned to the Johnson
  Space Center in Houston\, Texas\, for Space Shuttle training and flight a
 ssignment\n   \nHe took part in 4 space flights\, and spent more than 1
 000 hours in space\, including a spacewalk of more than 8 hours duration t
 o install new equipment on the Hubble Space Telescope. Since 2004\, he has
  been a professor at EPFL\, teaching at Master’s level\, and provides as
 sistance to students on various space related projects. He is also involve
 d in the “Solar Impulse” solar powered aircraft program as Head of Tes
 t Flights.\nThis lecture will first address the contributions of Edwin Hub
 ble to astronomy. Between 1920 and 1930\, me made some fundamental discove
 ries in astronomy. He established that the Universe is much bigger that th
 e Milky Way Galaxy\, ad that the whole Universe is in a state of expansion
 . When NASA and ESA decided around 1970 to build and operate a medium size
  optical space telescope to be carried into orbit by the Space Shuttle and
  serviceable in the space environment\, it was named the Hubble Space Tele
 scope. This made sense because the telescope\, with its superior expected 
 image resolution\, was going to be used primarily to observe and study the
  far away regions of the Universe. After its deployment in orbit in April 
 1990\, the telescope was significantly affected by an optical problem that
  was fixed on Servicing Mission 1 in December 1993. Since that time\, and 
 with 4 more Servicing Missions until 2009\, the Hubble Space Telescope has
  been and extraordinarily productive space-based scientific instrument\, m
 ainly used to study the early and the late phases of stellar birth\, the m
 orphology of galaxies\, and very far away objects at the limits of the vis
 ible Universe. Its contribution to astronomical knowledge has been\, and c
 ontinues to be very significant.
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