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1-4. Images of the launch and deployment of the Hubble space telescope. 5. On Discovery's middeck, the STS-31 crew poses for a traditional in-flight portrait. Loren J. Shriver, mission commander, is at lower left. Astronaut Charles F. Bolden, pilot, floats above. Others, left to right, are Kathryn D. Sullivan, Bruce McCandless II, and Steven A. Hawley (holding a model of the Hubble Space Telescope), all mission specialists.

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1-4. Images of the launch and deployment of the Hubble space telescope. 5. On Discovery's middeck, the STS-31 crew poses for a traditional in-flight portrait. Loren J. Shriver, mission commander, is at lower left. Astronaut Charles F. Bolden, pilot, floats above. Others, left to right, are Kathryn D. Sullivan, Bruce McCandless II, and Steven A. Hawley (holding a model of the Hubble Space Telescope), all mission specialists.
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AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 19:08:46 UTC AkaSci 🛰️

Happy Birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched OTD in 1990, with Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-31 mission.
34 years and 5 servicing missions later, Hubble is still going strong, unfolding the mysteries of the Universe from its perch 540 km above earth.
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