He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life and died, largely unknown, at the age of 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.AkiyesiItokasi awon ojoibi ni 1853Awon ojoalaisi ni 1890Igbesiaye.. 
Owó fún Ikọ̀ Hubble bẹ̀rẹ̀ síní jẹ́ kíkójọ ní ẹ̀wádún 1970s, pẹ̀lú ìrètí pé yíò gbéra ní 1983, ṣùgbọ́n ó kú sẹ́yìn nítorí ìṣòro ìṣiṣẹ́, ìnáwó àti ìjàmbá Challenger.. 