Transcription: Pavel Kobskiy, the world's most expensive astronomical observatory. Even the first images sent back by the Hubble Space Telescope, soon after its launch in April 1990, showed that all was not well. The cause was a mistake in making the mirror, due to lack of experience and perhaps in an effort to cut costs. The shape of the mirror was wrong. By a matter of two micrometers at the edges. The cause of the error was found by examining the records of the optical company which made the mirror. The blurred photographs were, naturally, a great disappointment to astronomers. The efforts made to remedy ...
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