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A SPACEFLIGHT ICON
Five Space Shuttle Orbiters made up NASA’s Space Transportation System (STS)
fleet – Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour. Combined,
they flew 135 missions carrying 355 people into space. Discovery flew the most
missions, carrying the highest number of passengers, while traveling further and
higher than the other orbiters. It also was Discovery’s assignment to launch and
deploy the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990 as part of the STS-31 mission.
In 2021, the 40th Anniversary of the Space Shuttle Program, we take the
opportunity to revisit this famous mission.
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THE MISSION
The launch and deployment of the Hubble
Space Telescope in April 1990 marked
the most significant advancement in
astronomy since Galileo’s telescope. It
was the first major optical telescope to be
placed in space, the ultimate mountaintop.
Above Earth’s atmospheric distortion, rain
clouds and light pollution, Hubble had an
unobstructed view of the universe. Scientists
have used Hubble to observe the most
distant stars and galaxies, as well as the
planets in our solar system.
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