NASA Hubble Space Telescope - 1990 onwards (including all upgrades): An insight into the history, development, collaboration, construction and role of ... space telescope (Owners' Workshop Manual)

I have a few of these in the space series. I always get funny looks and the question, "Do you have your own Hubble you need the oil changed on?" I wanted more of a scientific publication, the inner workings of the platform, how the components fit into the bus, the rocket that put this guy in orbit, how the transmission back to NASA works. In some areas I was disappointed, but the book overall is what I was expecting and I would recommend to colleagues. I think that this book is the middle of the road for what the engineer/aerospace geek and layperson want.

This is truly a masterpiece book about the Hubble spec telescope. After reading this, I now understood why it failed to perform in the first place until our Space Shuttle "Maytag" repairmen fixed it. It's a great book and you'll find it very interesting enough to keep you awake.

These are great books if you are interested in getting more technical information than is normally available in other publications. Lots of details.

It seems like a whole slew of books is being published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, and I'm not shocked to see Haynes jumping on the bandwagon. After the slightly disappointing Rocket manual published earlier this year, I'm happy to say that this "manual" is one of the nicest Haynes has published in some time. Although there are plenty of beautiful coffee table books of Hubble imagery out there, this one does an excellent job describing what a sophisticated and groundbreaking spacecraft it truly is.There are no fluffy asides or exciting personal stories to be found here. This is a straight-up technical reference, for people wanting to know how a High Speed Photometer works, or care what an "SI C&DH" or "RMGA" does. Despite being only 181 pages long, literally no stone seems to have been left unturned. All of the spacecraft's major components, important systems, and scientific instruments are described in fairly in-depth technical detail, accompanied by detailed schematics and color photographs. Each of the five servicing missions is covered, with descriptions of the new components delivered to the telescope, and of each EVA. These sections also include some very nice color photographs of the telescope and of astronauts servicing it in the Shuttle's payload bay. Rounding out the technical material is a brief biography of Edwin Hubble, and short chapters on the concept of astrometry, and the physics of the telescope.Although it looks like a novelty title, this book is VERY detailed in places, the text is a bit of an "acronym soup" in places, and casual readers will have a hard time with it. Some of the descriptions of how the scientific instruments work went a little over my head; thankfully there are some excellent diagrams to help out the perplexed reader! Typos and editing errors, always a problem with Haynes, seem to be mercifully few this time around. If you're looking for a "one-stop shop" book on Hubble and how it works, this is probably the book to go for.

in depth guide to the Hubble. I recommend this book to anyone who is addicted to this telescope, a modeler or a spacecraft historian

This book has a really nice historic look at the hubble. It has illustrations and photos of the telescope, history on it's maintenance. etc. Very interesting read.

My husband loved his birthday presnt

This is a fantastic book, but it reads like a college textbook. I have two boys that are very interested in science and they have an uncle who worked on the Hubble telescope. Unfortunately, this is not a great book for kids. My oldest reads at a college level and recently finished George Orwell's Animal Farm, but at 12: even his interest in the subject isn't enough to wade through this text. That's alright, we'll give the book a spot on the bookshelf and maybe in a couple of years they'll decide to pick it up again. If you are interested in the Hubble telescope this is a great book to purchase. It's chock-full of facts, but, definitely geared towards an adult's attention span and interest level.