KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The long-awaited launching of the Hubble Space Telescope will be delayed from March to April because of a problem with one of the shuttle Discovery's solid fuel booster rockets, NASA officials announced Friday.
The $1.7-billion telescope is expected to become astronomy's most significant tool in expanding knowledge of the universe. It will look seven times more deeply into space and detect objects one-fiftieth as bright as those seen by the best ground-based observatory.
