Hubble Archive - Pre-Launch

This is a recorded interview from Voice of America. In this program, Dr. Fred Whipple discusses sending a telescope above the earth's atmosphere to transcend the atmosphere's obscuring of the view of space. He talks about plans for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO,) which was a precursor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

National Archive webpage: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/105636

SVS webpage: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13059

National Archives Identifier: 105636

Local Identifier: 306.10-23

Creator: U.S. Information Agency

From: Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900-2003

This item was broadcast 07/10/1959

Production Series: New Horizons in Science

Discusses the history of telescopes, why we're putting one in space, the basics of astronomy, and how the [Hubble] Space Telescope will work.

Interviews with Dr. C. R. O'Dell, Space Telescope Project Scientist; Professor James Westphal, California Institute of Technology; Dr. Carl Sagan, Astronomer

National Archives webpage: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77180613

National Archives Identifier: 77180613

Local Identifier: 517-BBG-29508

Creator: NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center

From: Record Group 517: Records of the Broadcasting Board of Governors

This item was produced in 1981

Production Series: NASA at Work. "Space Telescope and Spacelab"

News story, interview, and b-roll for the [Hubble] Space Telescope. Interview with Riccardo Giacconi, the first director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

National Archives webpage: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/58585

National Archives Identifier: 58585

Local Identifier: 306-TVSF-4

Creator: International Communication Agency

From: Video Recordings from the "TV Satellite File" Program Series, Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency

This item was produced in 1983

NASAs Hubble Space Telescope The Challenge and Complexity of Operations.

This video presentation touches on the truly fast complexity of the first of NASA's great observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope.

G89-002 Hubble BDM Production

April 10, 1989

Created by BDM International, Inc. for NASA Headquarters

Animation and Special Effects by BDM International, Inc.; Interface Video Systems, Inc.; and Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Original Music by Premier Recording/DCA Music, Inc.

"This Presentation is dedicated to all those who worked to create the Hubble Space Telescope, especially Dr. Lyman Spitzer."

08:39 - Space Telescope project engineer Jean Olivier

09:15 - Space Telescope principal investigator Professor James Westphal

13:24 - Space Telescope program scientist Dr. Ed Weiler

17:44 - Space Telescope scientist Dr. Margaret Burbidge

22:36 - Space Telescope scientist Dr. Brad Smith

Science World episode 167 from 1990

National Archives webpage: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77179472

National Archives identifier: 77179472

Local Identifier: 517-BBG-37120

Creator: Broadcasting Board of Governors. International Broadcasting Bureau.

From: Record Group 517: Records of the Broadcasting Board of Governors

Episode 167 contains: Hubble Space Telescope, little known syndrome, and striper.

B-Roll of Hubble in Cleanroom