On April 24, 1990, Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope ... also conducted heat shield repair tests during spacewalks, setting a new standard for shuttle operations.

In December 1993 astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour performed ... above the Earth. The repair worked, and Hubble began to deliver crystal-clear images. Hubble's images have helped to ...

a camera that flew up to Hubble on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1997 and is still operational today. One day, he was using STIS to observe a nearby star that he suspected harbored a planet and ...

Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis was in the final phase of their Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope ... been to attempt spacewalks to repair the areas of concern, via ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery back in 1990 ... Five missions have been completed to repair, upgrade and replace systems on the telescope ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

just as NASA space shuttle astronauts did with Hubble, according to early designs. The space telescope will have four primary instruments, including a super-sensitive coronagraph that can detect ...

This was a mission with six other astronauts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Feustel performed three spacewalks during the mission. Following several years ...