Not the whole telescope, but they did build two mirrors, the backup one having been finished flawlessly by Kodak earlier than the one they used: https://www.nyt

Not the whole telescope, but they did build two mirrors, the backup one having been finished flawlessly by Kodak earlier than the one they used: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/18/us/hubble-has-backup-mirror-unused.html https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/18/us/hubble-has-backup-mirr... It ended up sitting “in its shipping crate in Danbury, Connecticut”: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Danbury%2C+Connecticut&ia=maps&iaxm=maps https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Danbury%2C+Connecticut&ia=m...