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Pete Simmons almost died from a plane crash around 40 years ago, but he survived, thank god. Pete Simmons was one out of a group of people to help with the Hubble telescope. Before the name Hubble its name was the LST (Large space telescope). Pete Simmons collaborated with a group of people the put the Hubble in space. In the beginning, the LST was not going to be put up into space, thanks to Pete he got it up there. The story behind this is that Pete went to congress and asked if they could lend him money to put the telescope into space. They declined him, and Pete left. He came across a person reading a superman comic and a great idea popped into Pete's head. He called up the superman comic writers and asked to have the LST into one of their comics, they accepted and Pete went back to congress. He asked if he got the LST into a superman comic if he could have the money, they happened to say yes and he showed them then they gave him the money. Now days lots of people know about the, now named, Hubble telescope. The Hubble takes pictures of the amazing space and if we didn't have the Hubble we may not be able to see past a certain place in space and wouldn't be able to learn as much as we know now. In conclusion without Pete Simmons or the rest of the group the Hubble may not have been know or even exist. So the lesson to learn from this is that even if something seems impossible its not, you just have to have evidence and you have to persevere.
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Pete Simmons helped with the Hubble Telescope.At first, Congress wouldn't fund the LST(Large Space Telescope). Pete Simmons then had a Superman comic made that had to do with the LST, which convinced Congress to fund the LST. He was part of the large group that came up with ideas for the LST, now known as the Hubble Telescope. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sandage2/Sandage1_1.html

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Pete Simmons was a very important person, but was also one of the only scientist that helped with the LST (Large Space Telescope) The LST has been delivering pictures from space to scientist  for about 25 years.He also had an idea to put  the LST on the front cover of the superman comic. So he asked congress to put it on the front cover and they did. The LST was the first name for the telescope, but the Hubble Telescope is what is called now
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F. Pete Simmons who is he, well he is one of many that helped in the idea of the hubble and in building it. But back then the Hubble was called the L.S.T (large space telescope) though congress decided to spend their money else were and so pete went to washington and tried to convince congress that this is great to invade in but still they said no. Disappointed Pete thought of an idea to save the L.S.T . So Pete want back to congress and seid will you give back the funding if the L.S.T was in a superman comic and congress seid yes and so Pete then slapped the comic on the table and seid where's my money and so congress gave him the money and then the L.S.T later named the Huddle is sent into space were it resides taking beautiful pictures.

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Pete Simmons helped create the hubble telescope. He got regretted by the Congress when he went to see if his idea, the LST, ''Large Space Telescope.'' He saw someone reading a superman book so he got an idea and told the superman comic book makers if he can add something to the books, which was his idea. They agreed and added the LST. So he went back to the Congress and asked if his idea was in the superman book would they do it. They sure wanted superman book and they gave him the money to pay people to help him build it.

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Pete Simmons was a LST Project Manager at the McDonald-Douglas Astronautics Company  and helped with funding for the Hubble telescope and he helped with designs/suggestions for the hubble. "Simmons was later to play an even larger role in coordinating and organizing a major lobbying response, both in Congressional committees and in industry in the mid 1970s, to gain support for Lyman Spitzers (1946) early suggestion for a space telescope."(Beginnings of Observational Cosmology in Hubble's Time: Historical Overview)

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Pete Simmons was a big part of designing the Hubble, although he did not help build it he did help come up with the idea and the funding. He received the funding and then it got taken away until he got Marvel Comics to include the LST (Large Space Telescope) in their Superman comic. After Pete Simmons was in a plane crash that almost cost him his life they had to surgically restore his face.

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Pete Simmons was one of the developers of the hubble telescope.  The Hubble has been delivering pictures of space to scientists for about 25 years.  Pete Simmons and others had came up with the idea because of one of the Superman's comic books. On April 25th, 2015 the Hubble telescope took it's 25th anniversary photos
http://history.nasa.gov/hubble/
https://prezi.com/uogtmt663z-4/progression-of-the-space-hubble/
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Pete Simmons was very happy about the Hubble, he and O'Dell even got some very important astronomers to come to a meeting about the LST, (Large Space Telescope) he got a lot of people to side with the creation of the Hubble. But sadly in 1974 they met with some budget problems, Congress took away their money, but Simmons support for the Hubble's creation was so strong he went to New York to find out what happened. He made his own pitches to help with the problem. The Congress said no, he left sad, but he saw someone with a Superman comic. He got a idea, he contacted the creator of Superman and he got the Hubble Telescope to appear in the one of the comics. Then he got the support he needed towards the Hubble. So therefor without him, the Hubble won't have gone in space and been there up there for about 25 years.
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Pete Simmons was a very important person. He became the project manager of the Large space telescope. In 1974 he had a great idea to build a large space telescope. He lost the funding from Congress. Heand his team  also thought of the Large Orbeding telescope. Thats not all, he also helped with symposia. But for the Hubble (Large space telescope) him and his team  came up with the first working plan for the to build it. The hubble is the large space telescope they are the same thing.  He also got most of the funding because at first Congress said he wouldn't get the funding but then he persuaded them by putting the telescope into a superman comic book.https://books.google.com/books?id=MVSEXgn2ca4C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=pete+simmons+builder+of+the+hubble+telescope&source=bl&ots=DkKwCVbSvd&sig=l5ieApgzXxVjtlnkq596jtrddwA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidnoWOvLXPAhUFy2MKHf8aD3sQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q=pete%20simmons%20builder%20of%20the%20hubble%20telescope&f=false

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Before the Hubble was known as the LST (Large Space Telescope) it was known as LOT (Large Orbit Telescope) but was  changed in the 1960.Pete simmons was the project manager of the LST Before that he was a director of astronomy.The hubble telescope was named after Edwin Hubble who manufactured foundations which the telescope was centered.The Hubble was eventually launched and took many pictures of deep space and astronomers learned about suns and moons that would have not been  possible without Pete Simmons and the Hubble Telescope.

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Beginnings of cosmology in Hubble's time - A.Sandage

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Why then was the telescope eventually named for Edwin Hubble? That too is appropriate, but much farther back in history. Simply, Hubble had manufactured the foundations upon which a large part of the present work of the telescope on cosmology is centered.

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The Hubble telescope is a telescope we launched into space nearly 30 years ago. If it wasn't for Dr. F Pete Simmons the Hubble telescope wouldn't even exist. In 1969-1970 when Grumman (who he was working for) was designing the Large Space Telescope and he fell in love with the idea of sending a telescope into space. He went to Congress to get approval for the Large Space Telescope. They rejected him. On the plane ride home he saw someone reading a superman comic and wandered if he could see if he could get the telescope in the comic book so the congress would let him take the LST into space. https://books.google.com/books?id=ALt79vrQgJAC&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=Pete+Simmons+and+the+hubble&source=bl&ots=-J4JP6RjYc&sig=EPLkbInfREESx0nyvNJW6HUbCWE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc1MvzuLXPAhVH6WMKHcP5AQsQ6AEILDAG#v=onepage&q=Pete%20Simmons%20and%20the%20hubble&f=false

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Pete Simmons was in the group that created the first working plan for the LST (Large Space Telescope). Pete Simmons also became the director of the LST project because he helped make the first plan for the LST. He asked to put the LST into a Superman comic book to get the LST accepted by the Congress so they could send it to space. Later on, the LST was renamed to be the Hubble telescope. http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84031109/1990-04-25/ed-1/seq-1.pdf

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Pete Simmons is important to the building of the Hubble in many ways. He helped come up with the idea of the large space telescope also known as the large orbiting telescope later to be known as the Hubble. He organized the meeting that discussed the lst. He made it so they got the funds by convincing the congress with a superman comic. He did this by asking the publisher of superman to add the lst in the superman comic #419. After that he asked the congress if he could have the funds if the lst was in the superman comic. The congress said yes so Pete showed them the comic and got the money. As you can see Pete Simmons is important to the building of the Hubble in many ways.

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Pete Simmons became the project manager for LST (Large Space Telescope) at the McDonald-Douglas Astronautics after his earlier role at Grumman Aerospace corporation working as Director of astronomy for the highly successful Orbiting Astronomical Observatories.  coordinating and organizing a major lobbying response, both in Congressional committees and in industry in the mid 1970s, to gain support for Lyman Spitzer's (1946) early suggestion for a space telescope.
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Pete simmons was working on the Hubble telescope for 20 years and has messed up the Hubble so the state had to send people to go and fix it He thought that the hubble telescope would be a really big accomplishments for him. He got involved in 1968 and he said to prove that the hubble will be the most significant achievement in astronomy since the galileo peered up at the havens nearly 400 years ago
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He was not the creator but a developer and help think of the Hubble . he is Retired  engineer Dr. F. Peter Simmons and his wife Dottie.

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Pete Simmons had become the project manager for LST at the McDonald-Douglas Astronautics Company. He was the person in charge. Later he was to play even a larger role in coordinating and organizing a major lobbying response. Pete Simmons was the had a huge part in the hubble telescope. He was one of the people who helped build the hubble telescope.In 1974 a group of scientist and engineres along with Pete went to washington to present the Hubble.
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Did you know that superman and space can be connect? The only person that could do something the amazing is Peter Simmons because he was determined to get the funding to make the Largest Space Telescope. The funding was taken back because they thought this project was not necessary. So he went to the board and said if I make it in the Superman Comic book will you give me the funding. They answered yes. He pulled out the book and said where's my money.  Then they made the telescope and sent it to space. It was 40 mm. off so the pictures were blurry. A team was sent to space to fix the LST. This telescope time is up . It has been in space for 25 years. Therefore if it was not for Peter Simmons the LST would not be there. http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/

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Pete Simmons was an aerospace engineer who once worked at Grumman Aerospace, now retired, and who worked and played a major part in the making of the Hubble Telescope, which has been is Space for 26 years. A part that he played in the Hubble's existence, is the funding, if it weren't for him, the Hubble wouldn't exist. The story goes that Congress wouldn't fund the construction of the Hubble, and went off to spend their money on something else. Pete, went and talked to Congress, and tried to persuade them to fund the project, they refused. So, Pete started thinking, and on the plane ride home, he came up with his great idea. He thought that if he could get the famous comic "Superman" to get the LST(Large Space Telescope) funding in the comic, he could persuade Congress to fund the project. Pete found and talked to the creator of "Superman" to see if he could get the Hubble telescope in the comic. The creator agreed. Pete went back to Congress, and made them a deal, that if he could get the Hubble on the cover of "Superman" they would fund the project. Congress was skeptical, but nevertheless, they agreed, immediately after they agreed, Pete slapped the comic with the Hubble Telescope on the cover, in front of them and said, "There's the comic, where's the money?" Congress ended up funding the project. So, if not for Pete Simmons, the Hubble Telescope wouldn't exist
My Sources are, gjsentinal.com, hubblesite.org, and what Mr. Carpenter told us.

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Pete Simmons was not only responsible for creating the Hubble, but he was the Project manager for the Hubble or LST. Then he was a Director for Astromony for Orbiting Astronomical Observations. It was 1974 when they had the necessary technology for inventing the Hubble Telescope.  All of my information came from the article,  Beginning of Cosmology in Hubble's Time. And the website,  https://ned.ipac.calthech.edu/level5/Sangage2/Sangage1_1.html

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Pete Simmons developed the first working plan for the Hubble and was in one of first working group of scientists envisioned an orbiting space telescope.  He also was a part of all the  changes throughout the 22 year life of the Hubble project. He believed the Hubble will prove to be the most significant achievement in astronomy since Galileo first peered up at the heavens nearly 400 years ago. This information was all found on http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84031109/1990-04-25/ed-1/seq-1.pdf.

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47 years ago Pete Simmons got in a major plane crash that almost cost him his life. They had to surgically repair his face using a photo identification card he had on him to repair his face. Pete Simmons played a big part in the construction of the hubble telescope. The people that built the hubble got the funds from the government but then the government just took them away again.  Pete Simmons is one of the only reasons the hubble telescope exists because after the government took the funding away Pete Simmons talked to the government and got the funding back.

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Pete Simmons has developed the first working telescope to go out into space. It took 8 years to build  the Hubble Telescope, and once it was shot out into space, Pete Simmons was mildly upset as the astronauts had to go up to space and fix the lens as the Hubble Telescope was blurry the first time. Pete Simons wasn't only the creator, but was a Director of Astronomy for a Orbiting Astronomical Observations. A fact about the Hubble Telescope that is has made more than 1.2 million observations when it began it's mission in 1990.

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Pete Simmons was very important to the creation of the Hubble Telescope. Pete Simmons contributed a lot to the Hubble Telescope and its actual existence, even though he never even actually built the Hubble, but the Hubble being even up in space orbiting, was because of him.
Pete Simmons quickly became the Project Manager of the LST (Large Space Telescope) which was what the Hubble Telescope was called before they officially named it.In 1974  Pete Simmons called a meeting and this meeting created the LST entirely. Simmons believed that their telescope would be the greatest thing since Galileo.
Through many hoops, he finally got the Congress to confirm their request for money. They built it over the course of 8 years and released it into space. Pete Simmons retired in 1989 at the age of 81.
Thanks to Pete Simmons the Hubble Telescope has been up  26 years taking high quality pictures deep into space.
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Pete simmons was really important. He was important because he help create the idea of the LST. The Hubble has revealed the age of the universe to be about 13 to 14 billion years, much more accurate than the old range of anywhere from 10 to 20 billion years.   In 1975, the European Space Agency began to work together with NASA on a plan that would eventually become the Hubble Space Telescope   .http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/

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Pete Simmons was one was the first working group of scientists that visualised the Hubble, or an LST (Large Space Telescope) or LOT (Large Orbiting Telescope) . The Hubble had been launched into space on April 24, 1990. One of the Hubble's scopes was 2 microns off and had to be replaced up in space, the problem with the lens being 2 microns off was that the photos would be fuzzy. The Hubble has been up in  orbit for 25 years. http://www.spacetelescope.org/about/history/servicing_mission_1/  https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sandage2/Sandage2_1.html