[R-390] TUBES

[Todd Bigelow - PS]

I had heard that the calculation involved was one that did not take into account
just how the mirror would sit once it was outside of earth's gravity. Someone
should've made a scale model and taken it for a test ride in the VomitComet...

Boomer

Ed Zeranski wrote:

> >The Hubble bobble had nothing to do with miscalculation, though:
> >it was caused by a tech at (IIRC) Perkin-Elmer putting a gauge
> >stick in bass-ackwards, so that the mirror's focal length was
> >off.
>
> Not a normal miss calq of numbers, you are right, but still a miscalq of
> risk. Have you read the after event stuff by Richard Fineman?  The old gnome
> got dismissed as 'just a CALTECH physicist' when he said the board wasn't
> even asking the right questions. :^)
>
> Can't troubleshoot if you won't admit there is a problem.