On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed!
Hubble is famous for taking some of the most amazing deep-space photos ever. It hitched a ride to space on the space shuttle Discovery with mission STS-31. Also on board were astronauts Charles Bolden, Loren Shriver, Bruce McCandless, Steven Hawley and Kathryn Sullivan. The crew used a Canadian-built robotic arm to deploy Hubble from the shuttle's cargo bay while they were orbiting 332 nautical miles above the Earth. No one knew it at the time, but Hubble wouldn't be taking any pretty pictures anytime soon. When Hubble took its first photos almost a month after it was deployed, the pictures were out of focus because of a flaw in its mirror. Thankfully, the problem was fixable, and astronauts successfully repaired it in 1993.
Hubble is famous for taking some of the most amazing deep-space photos ever. It hitched a ride to space on the space shuttle Discovery with mission STS-31. Also on board were astronauts Charles Bolden, Loren Shriver, Bruce McCandless, Steven Hawley and Kathryn Sullivan. The crew used a Canadian-built robotic arm to deploy Hubble from the shuttle's cargo bay while they were orbiting 332 nautical miles above the Earth. No one knew it at the time, but Hubble wouldn't be taking any pretty pictures anytime soon. When Hubble took its first photos almost a month after it was deployed, the pictures were out of focus because of a flaw in its mirror. Thankfully, the problem was fixable, and astronauts successfully repaired it in 1993.
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00:00On this day in space. On April 25th, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was
00:06deployed. Hubble is famous for taking some of the most amazing deep space
00:10photos ever. It hitched a ride to space on the space shuttle Discovery with
00:14mission STS-31. Also on board were astronauts Charles Bolden, Lauren Shriver,
00:20Bruce McCandless, Stephen Hawley, and Katherine Sullivan. The crew used a
00:24Canadian-built robotic arm to deploy Hubble from the shuttle's cargo bay
00:27while they were orbiting 332 nautical miles above the Earth. No one knew it at
00:32the time, but Hubble wouldn't be taking any pretty pictures anytime soon. When
00:36Hubble took its first photos almost a month after it was deployed, the pictures
00:40were out of focus because of the flaw in its mirror. Thankfully the problem was
00:44fixable, and astronauts successfully repaired it in 1993. And that's what
00:48happened on this day in space.