HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

Large highly detailed m🍷odel by Penwal Industries for NASA, ca 1990

1:25 scale model in metal, resin and composite materials, (21 inches long with two 18 inch long solar panels), reflective mirror inside base of telescope, mounted onto wooden base (12 by 8 by 1 inches) with metal plaque reading "Hubble Space Telescope. 1:25 scale", and metal NASA worm logo tag indicating that this was made for tꦬhe NASA Aerospacꦏe Education Services Program. In original carrying case. Some small chips/cracks. 

Hubble was the world's first space-based optical telescope, named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, it marked the most significant 🐬advancement in astronomy since Galileo's refinements of the telescope in the beginning of the 17th century.