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Article: After Hubble, NASA will have a big space to fill.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- December 16, 2003
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Byline: James Janega
CHICAGO _ In the time it takes to read this paragraph, NASA officials say the Hubble Space Telescope will travel nearly 60 miles across the sky, gather some of the six CD-ROMs' worth of data it fills each day, and come that much closer to a fiery burial at sea.
Easily the space agency's most celebrated science platform, Hubble can peer 13 billion light-years into the past and spot evidence of planets forming among far away stars.
Much of what astronomers have learned about the universe in the last 10 years came from the Hubble. Nevertheless, scientists and NASA administrators say it now orbits the Earth in uncertainty, ...