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Goddard Space Flight Center Engineering Colloquium
Date: Monday, March 3, 2003
The Hubble Space Telescope is arguably one of our most productive and successful scientific enterprises. How did it get this way? We will examine some of the ingredients that have made this success possible, and that are continuing to advance its capabilities. We'll look at the major stages of the project since deployment, and come up with some observations that may be useful for future endeavors.
Dr. Edward Cheng was a member of the Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics in the Space Sciences Directorate at NASA/GSFC from October 1989 through October 2002. During that time, he served as the COBE Deputy Project Scientist and the HST Development Project Scientist, spending his copious free time building balloon payloads and instruments to characterize the anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. His most recent contributions to HST were in leading the successful effort to revive the cryogenic instrument with the NICMOS Cooling System, and in developing the Wide-Field Camera 3 instrument for deployment during HST Servicing Mission 4. Since October 2002, he has been working full time at his company, Conceptual Analytics, doing scientific research and instrument development under contract with universities, industry, and NASA.
Colloquium Committee Sponsor: Lloyd Purves
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