A. Read the text below and find 10 passive sentences!

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in
operation. Although not the first space telescope, Hubble is one of the largest and most versatile and
it is well known as both a vital research tool and a public relations boon for astronomy. The HST is
named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble and is one of NASA's Great Observatories, along with the
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

The HST was built by the United States space agency NASA, with contributions from the European
Space Agency. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) selects Hubble's targets and processes
the resulting data, while the Goddard Space Flight Centre controls the spacecraft.

Space telescopes were proposed as early as 1923. Hubble was funded in the 1970s, with a proposed
launch in 1983, but the project was beset by technical delays, budget problems, and the Challenger
disaster (1986). When finally launched in 1990, Hubble's main mirror was found to have been
ground incorrectly, compromising the telescope's capabilities. The optics were corrected to their
intended quality by a servicing mission in 1993.

Hubble is the only telescope designed to be serviced in space by astronauts. After launch by Space
Shuttle Discovery in 1990, five subsequent Space Shuttle missions repaired, upgraded, and replaced
systems on the telescope, including all five of the main instruments. The fifth mission was initially
cancelled on safety grounds following the Columbia disaster (2003). However, after spirited public
discussion, NASA administrator Mike Griffin approved the fifth servicing mission, completed in 2009.
The telescope is operating as of 2018, and could last until 2030–2040.[3] Its scientific successor, the
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is scheduled for launch in March 20.

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Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He
played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational
cosmology. He is regarded as one of the most important astronomers of all time.

Hubble discovered that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified
as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He used the strong direct relationship
between a classical Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period [discovered in 1908 by
Henrietta Swan Leavitt for scaling galactic and extragalactic distances].

Hubble provided evidence that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from
the earth, a property now known as "Hubble's law", despite the fact that it had been both proposed
and demonstrated observationally two years earlier by Georges Lemaître. Hubble's Law implies that
the universe is expanding. A decade before, the American astronomer Vesto Slipher had provided
the first evidence that the light from many of these nebulae was strongly red-shifted, indicative of
high recession velocities

Hubble's name is most widely recognized for the Hubble Space Telescope which was named in his
honor, with a model prominently displayed in his hometown of Marshfield, Missouri.

B. From the text above make questions and answers with the question words below!

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