Hubble launched on April 24, 1990, stowed inside the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery. STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall.

That final mission was the STS-125 servicing flight on the shuttle Atlantis, which NASA thought would give Hubble at least five more years of life, though the agency hoped to stretch that to 15 years.

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Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. Within a month ...

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Hubble has made more than 1.6 million observations over the course of its lifetime, NASA says. And Hubble's discoveries have spawned more than 21,000 peer-reviewed science papers.

BROOK PARK, Ohio -- Regarded by many as NASA’s most successful science mission, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery 35 years ago, on April 24, 1990.

Rather than abandon the Hubble, NASA fixed the problem. The first servicing mission, undertaken by the space shuttle Endeavour in December 1993, carried out several repairs and enhancements.

A growing movement is fighting to keep Space Shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian, warning that a proposed move to Houston ...

Hubble has made more than 1.6 million observations over the course of its lifetime, NASA says. And Hubble's discoveries have spawned more than 21,000 peer-reviewed science papers.