The Hubble Space Telescope was sent into space in 1990. But the first pictures back to Earth weren't as clear as they should have been. There was something with the telescope. In 1993 a team of astronauts was to fix the telescope, a had scientists started getting the spectacular pictures they been waiting for. Tele here on Earth can't get very clear pictures of objects in space because the Earth' atmosphere makes the pictures unclear. A telescope in space doesn't have that The Hubble Space Telescope can take pictures that are times clearer than an on Earth