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On
April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard Space
Shuttle Discovery on the STS-31 mission. The mission featured the
deployment of Hubble, the first of NASA's Great Observatories to reach
orbit. STS-31 was the tenth launch of the shuttle Discovery. On board
were astronauts Charles F. Bolden (pilot, now NASA Administrator),
Steven A. Hawley (mission specialist), Loren J. Shriver (commander),
Bruce McCandless (mission specialist) and Kathryn D. Sullivan (mission
specialist, now NOAA Administrator).
In this April 25, 1990 photograph taken with a handheld Hasselblad
camera, most of the giant Hubble Space Telescope can be seen as it is
suspended in space by Discovery's Remote Manipulator System (RMS)
following the deployment of part of its solar panels and antennae. This
was among the first photos NASA released on April 30 from the five-day
STS-31 mission.
Image Credit: NASA
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