The thing about telescopes is that the mirror is the main component. Once that’s built, you don’t need to build new ones; you just need to swap out the instruments. There’s nothing wrong with Hubble’s mirror. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
Hubble orbits high, outside Earth’s atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
Every field of astrophysics – whether it’s our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe – every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
Every observation that we make, every mission that we send to various places in the solar system is just taking us one step further to finding that truly habitable environment, a water-rich environment. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system – the planets Neptune and Uranus. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It’s more than what anyone expected. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
I’m happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I’d take a jet flight to the moon. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
