The telescope's size is reduced to 2.4 meters. Lockheed Missiles and Space Company wins the contract to design and build the telescope. The telescope's launch is delayed after the Challenger accident. The telescope is kept in storage at Lockheed. The telescope is shipped from Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in California to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Astronauts add a corrective optics system to fix the telescope's myopic vision.
Another observation, called the Hubble Deep Field, allows astronomers to see to the edge of the universe. The second servicing mission takes place. Astronauts install two new science instruments. In the Hubble Deep Field South observation, the telescope peers across space in the southern sky. The third servicing mission takes place.