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RELEASE: 02-06
More than 15 years after he left NASA, the late Dr. Burt
Edelson's legacy can still be seen in NASA's Space Science
and Earth Science programs.
"He had the vision and foresight to know that Hubble had to
be maintained and upgraded," said Dr. Edward Weiler,
Associate Administrator for Space Science, who was the Hubble
program scientist in the 1980s. "He allowed us to start
development of the second Wide-Field/Planetary Camera, which
was installed during the first Hubble servicing mission and
became the telescope's workhorse scientific instrument."
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