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    NASA's Grunsfeld returns Hubble ball 1/4

    Astronaut-alumnus John Grunsfeld, SM’84, PhD’88, displayed the Edwin Hubble orbiting space basketball. Hubble, SB, 1910, PhD, 1917, namesake of the orbiting Hubble Space telescope, played with this basketball in 1909 as a member of the University of Chicago Maroon’s basketball team that defeated Indiana University 18-12.
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