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But there’s another The Hubble Space Telescope began experiencing big event in November that you have probably a problem on Oct. 5, when one of its gyroscopes failed heard your teachers and family members talking and a back-up gyroscope sent back abnormal read- about too— elections. ings. The telescope went into a protective safe mode Elections happen every year in November, but as scientists worked to solve the problem. Engineers the election this year has gotten a lot of attention were able to TROUBLESHOOT the problem with the because it’s what is known as a midterm election. back-up gyro and Hubble returned to normal opera- This is the term for an election held every two tions on October 26. years for Congressional seats when the election falls in between a presidential election. Hubble actually has a total of six gyroscopes. The photo courtesy of NASA Hubble’s most famous image— You’ve probably seen a lot of ads on TV and telescope needs to have three functional gyroscopes “Pillars of Creation.” to work at maximum effciency, and two Hubble gyros social media trying to encourage adults to vote. had previously stopped working before the October 5 rain clouds and light pollution, so it gives scientists a Some adults choose not to vote and many take it failure. better view than ground-based telescopes. The Hubble Space Telescope is actually a joint ven- Hubble, which launched into orbit in 1990 aboard the Election Facts: ture between NASA and the European Space Agency space shuttle Discovery, is one of NASA's most suc- • 2018 Midterm Elections Tuesday, Nov. 6 cessful and long-lasting science missions. The initial (ESA). Hubble’s job is to orbit Earth above the atmo- • 15th Amendment, ratifed sphere and send images back to Earth. It has sent images Hubble sent back were blurry, so astronauts in 1870, extends voting back hundreds of thousands of images, which has went to fx its primary mirror in 1993. Astronauts have rights to African helped scientists determine the age of the universe serviced the telescope four times since then, most re- Americans. and many other mysteries from the space around us. cently in 2009 when all six gyroscopes were replaced. • 19th Amendment, NASA says that Hubble was the most signifcant NASA expects Hubble to continue operating into ratifed in 1920, the 2020s and providing amazing discoveries along extends voting rights to advance in astronomy since Galileo turned his self- American women. made telescope toward the sky in 1610. One of the the way. Even if another gyro fails, NASA explains reasons Hubble has been so successful is its location. that the telescope can continue doing Hubble-quality Hubble is positioned above the atmosphere, far above science, just in a smaller fraction of the sky. for granted, but it has not always been a guaran- teed right for everyone. The right to vote has been part of our country Third-grader Makes the Find of a Lifetime! since it began, but was initially only for land-own- ing white men. Early in the 1800s, as states TÅNNÖ, Sweden—An 8-year-old girl to the sky…and called out, ‘Daddy, I’ve joined the union, each state created their own just had a summer she and her family found a sword!’ I felt like a warrior.” constitution which governed who was allowed to will never forget. Every summer, Saga But this delicate, rusting and muddy vote. Eligible voters continued to be mostly white Vanecek and her family enjoy a cabin sword is far from ordinary. While experts men who owned property. Women began to or- by a lake called Vidöstern in Southern need to study it much more carefully, ganize and campaign for the right to vote, which Sweden. archaeologists believe it’s most likely a was the start of the Suffragette Movement. But a record hot summer had really Viking sword and estimate that it’s be- In 1848, Wisconsin entered the union and lowered the water level of the lake. On tween 1,000 and 1,500 years old. It is a expanded voting rights to people who were living July 15, Saga was playing on the beach very important ARTIFACT scientifcally, here from other countries if they had lived in with her friend when her dad, Andy Van- historically and culturally to the area. Wisconsin for one year and planned to become ecek, asked her to get a buoy from the The ancient sword was handed over United States’ citizens. cabin. He wanted to warn boats that the to a nearby museum, which asked Saga In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. lake bottom around the buoy was very and her family to keep the fnd a secret. Constitution extended the right to vote to African shallow. The museum wanted to search the lake American men by banning voting restrictions As she waded into the cool water, to fnd more artifacts before they an- based on “race, color, or previous condition of Saga decided to make the most of it. nounced Saga’s big discovery! While that servitude.” While this was a big win on paper, “I was crawling along the bottom of the area of the lake didn’t turn out to be the many states used poll taxes, literacy tests, and lake on my arms and knees, looking for Viking burial site the museum had hoped intimidation to keep these individuals from voting. stones to skim (also known as stone skip- for, workers did discover a brooch from It took another 100 years of laws before most ping) when my hand and knee felt some- around AD 300–400.