The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It Book

A moderately interesting book which suffers from a couple of flaws. His descriptions of underlying phenomena are sometimes lacking. Example: his discussion of atmospheric properties limiting the performance of ground based telescopes doesn't even address turbulence.

He also backed the wrong horse in the award of the Space Telescope Science Institute, interviewing Lyman Spitzer and others from Princeton while the award of course went to Johns Hopkins. Only one individual from Hopkins is quoted, and then indirectly.

Still, a useful history of the time. The title is a little overblown. Not sure how visionary it is to understand that putting telescopes in space would improve their performance.

PS I collaborated with one the main players in this book, Ed Weiler. We published a couple of papers in Ap.J., titled something like "Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Absorption Along the Line of Sight to HR1099." This is now more than a few years ago....