Celebrate with NASA as Agency Commemorates Hubble Space Telescope's 25th Anniversary

Celebrate with NASA as Agency Commemorates Hubble Space Telescope's 25th Anniversary

WASHINGTON, April 16, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary with a variety of events highlighting its groundbreaking achievements and scientific contributions with activities running April 20-26.

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Hubble, the world's first space telescope, was launched on April 24, 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery. In its quarter-century in orbit, the observatory has transformed our understanding of our solar system and beyond, and helped us find our place among the stars.

Starting at midnight EDT on Monday, April 20, and running through Sunday, April 26, images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope will be broadcast several times each hour on the Toshiba Vision dual LED screens in Times Square, New York.

The IMAX movie Hubble 3D is playing at select theatres across the United States throughout April. Hubble images come to vast, three-dimensional life, taking audiences through the telescope's 25-year existence and putting them in orbit with astronauts during the latest servicing mission. For more information and the trailer, visit:

http://hubblesite.org/hubble_20/imax_hubble_3d/

Commemorative 3-D Hubble model and logo files will be available beginning April 20. The files can be downloaded and printed using a 3-D printer and assembled into a miniature Hubble model. For more information, visit:

http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/

NASA Television will air the following anniversary events:


-- Thursday, April 23 (9 to 9:45 a.m.) -- Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW, Washington -- NASA will unveil the official Hubble 25th anniversary
image at this public event, with remarks by NASA Administrator Charlie
Bolden, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate John
Grunsfeld, Hubble Senior Project Scientist Jennifer Wiseman, and Space
Telescope Science Institute Interim Director Kathryn Flanagan.
-- Friday, April 24 (8 to 9 p.m.) - Smithsonian's National Air and Space
Museum, 600 Independence Ave. SW, Washington -- Astronauts, scientists,
engineers, technicians, educators, and staff who have contributed to
Hubble's success will be honored at a closed ceremony, followed by talks
from prominent officials whose significant contribution to space science
have made Hubble possible. For media interviews, contact Dwayne Brown at
202-358-1726, or dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov.
-- Saturday, April 25 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) - National Air and Space Museum's
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, 14390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy.,
Chantilly, Virginia -- The museum is holding an open family day event
featuring panels of astronauts, scientists and engineers. Speakers will
recount the history of Hubble and discuss its successor, the James Webb
Space Telescope. For media interviews, contact Dwayne Brown at
202-358-1726, or dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov. For more information, visit:
http://airandspace.si.edu/events/detail.cfm?id=15779

For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For more Hubble 25th Anniversary events, visit:

http://www.hubble25th.org

For more information about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/hubble

Felicia Chou

Headquarters, Washington

202-358-0257
felicia.chou@nasa.gov

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