Not only that. Perkin-Elmer was given the contract for grinding the primary mirror on the Hubble. Yes, the same primary mirror that was misground and required a

Not only that. Perkin-Elmer was given the contract for grinding the primary mirror on the Hubble. Yes, the same primary mirror that was misground and required a multimillion dollar Shuttle mission to go fix with a pair of "eyeglasses" (secondary mirrors). The reason for the screw-up? The same sort of time pressure that these engineers were working under. Working under time pressure like this isn't heroism. It's stupidity, and leads to screw-ups like Hubble. EDIT: The Hubble mirror was even polished at the same Danbury plant where these spy satellite mirrors were being assembled. I wonder if one of the reasons for the Hubble mirror being misshapen was because personell were being pulled to work on CIA contracts?