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Regarded by many as NASA’s most successful science mission, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space aboard the ...

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The ACS was repaired and the WFC3 was installed during a May 2009 servicing mission involving five spacewalks by astronauts from the space shuttle Atlantis. Spectrographs: The Cosmic Origins ...

the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 24, 1990. Since it orbits above the Earth, it can capture better cosmic images ...