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Space Shuttle Discovery stood on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center on April 24, 1990, poised to carry and deliver its most important scientific payload. Shuttle mission STS-31, with Commander Loren J. Shriver, Pilot and future NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr., and Mission Specialists Steven A. Hawley, Bruce McCandless II, and Kathryn D. Sullivan, was assigned the primary mission of deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into a 380 mile orbit above the Earth.
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Chen, J.L., Chen, A. (2015). The Short, Yet Surprisingly Long History of the Hubble Space Telescope. In: A Guide to Hubble Space Telescope Objects. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18872-0_1
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