The Hubble Wars

Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics in the Two-Billion-Dollar Struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope

With a New Preface

Eric J. Chaisson

  • Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy

Preface, 1998

Preface to the Original Edition

Prologue: Launch of Space Telescope

Deployment and Early Operations

Jitters, in Space and on the Ground

Hubble's First Light

Babel Revisited

Rocky Road to the Imaging Campaign

Inaugural Science Observations

More Early Science Results

Epilogue: Miracle on Orbit

Afterword: The "Fix"

For Further Reading

Index

  • Cover: The Hubble Wars
  • A photo of the author

Eric J. Chaisson is Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the H. Dudley Center for Innovative Science Education at Tufts University. He is the author of Cosmic Dawn, nominated for the National Book Award for distinguished science writing.