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Article: SCIENTIST LECKRONE TO DISCUSS 'HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: NEW BEGINNING,' OCT. 13

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- The Library of Congress issued the following news release:

For more than 19 years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope-one of the celebrated scientific instruments of our time-has revolutionized our understanding of the universe and how it works.

David S. Leckrone, just-retired senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope Program, will present "The Hubble Space Telescope: A New Beginning" at the Library of Congress at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C.

The illustrated lecture, the fifth in a series of programs in 2009, is presented through a ...

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