STS-61
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STS-61 was NASA's first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on December 2, 1993, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. T
Musgrave being raised to the top of Hubble by Canadarm, as it sits in Endeavour's payload bay.
Standing: Covey, Hoffman, Akers Seated: Bowersox, Thornton, Musgrave, NicollierSpace Shuttle program← STS-58 (58)STS-60 (60) → Hubble Space Telescope missions← STS-31 (Deploy)STS-82 (SM2) →
Launch of the first servicing mission
Approaching the telescope.
Hubble Space Telescope
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The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most ver
STS-61
…STS-61 was NASA's first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on December 2, 1993, from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in…
The Hubble Space Telescope during STS-125
Lyman Spitzer played a major role in the birth of the Hubble Space Telescope project.
Nancy Grace Roman with a model of the Large Space Telescope that was eventually developed as the Hubble Space Telescope. While listed as a 1966 photo, this design was not the standard until the mid-1970s.
American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (pictured in 1931), for whom the telescope is named.