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1993 Year in Review

Hubble Telescope

Published: 1993
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Astronaut F. Story Musgrave, anchored on the Space Shuttle Endeavor's robotic arm, is elevated to the top of the Hubble Space Telescope during Hubble's first servicing mission in 1993. Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, inside the shuttle payload bay, assists Musgrave. NASA announced plans for another shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope during a closed briefing at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on October 31, 2006. The shuttle mission, SM4, is planned for May 2008 with the main goal of servicing the Hubble by installing new equipment, batteries and gyros, in order to keep it operational through 2013. (UPI PHOTO/NASA)

Howard Dicus: Long after mankind has forgotten most of what we've mentioned on this program, the scientific events of 1993 will be remembered. A French team finished the first human genetic map, and the George Washington University team cloned a human embryo. Surgeons in Pittsburgh slightly extended the life of a hepatitis patient with the liver of a baboon. A professor at Princeton said he had proven Fermat's last theorem, solving a 350-year-old mathematical mystery. At year's end, the world's leading math wizards were still trying to figure out if Andrew Wiles' solution added up.

Astronauts put glasses on the blurry-eyed Hubble space telescope, but a Mars probe got lost in space.

Wes Huntress: “I wish we knew precisely what happened.”

Howard Dicus: NASA's Wes Huntress.

Wes Huntress: “I mean, we have several theories about what the possibilities are; but we haven't been able to confirm any of them. To confirm them would require that we reestablish communications with the spacecraft.”

Howard Dicus: Congress killed plans for the world's largest atom smasher, leaving Texas with a $2 billion hole in the ground.


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