Astronaut to Carry Vintage Hubble Basketball Into Space
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 11:35
in Astronomy & Space
Most people know University of Chicago alumnus Edwin Hubble (S.B.,1910, Ph.D.,1917) as a famed astronomer, the namesake of the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST). But he also starred as a forward on the University of Chicago Maroons' Big Ten-champion basketball teams of 1907-08 and 1908-09.