From: hermit 
To: Dave McCarter 
CC: Vladimir Galogaza ,
        ATM 
Reply-To: hermit 


Dave McCarter wrote:
>
> >
> > >(even Hubble - they did a Foucault test which said
> > >the mirror was a chunk of junk - but the NASA managers didn't
believe it).
> >
> > I will rephrase a little this sentence.
> >
> > Mirror was faulty but NASA&Perkin Elmer  managers were a chunk of junk
> > unable to recognize/admit  what they should clearly saw.
> >
> > Vladimir.
>
> Not so. Perkin Elmer did not use any form of Foucault test on the Hubble
mirror,

Interesting.  I had heard they used 3 tests.  Two tests, one of them
Foucault, disagreed.  The truth "must be out there". And this is
the best I could Google. ;-)

http://yarchive.net/space/optics/hubble.html

Ken

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