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.

Loren Shriver (MSAAE ’68) commands the STS-31 mission, which deploys the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble provides a deep view into space that has led to numerous breakthroughs in astrophysics. In ...

Women in space: An international timeline of their milestones to the stars and back More than 600 people who have launched into space. Only 100 have been women.

In addition to the story, the book also includes a timeline of real-life events, starting from Jones' selection to the astronaut class on Jan. 16, 1990, to Space Shuttle Endeavour's safe return to ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—America's space agency on Saturday sought to launch a rocket largely cobbled together from the space shuttle, which itself was designed and built more than four ...

This week marks two decades since the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, where seven crew members killed. ... Follow a timeline of the Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003. Editorial.

Harris, the first African American to perform a spacewalk, flew on two shuttle missions. Whitson, set to command Axiom Mission 4, holds the record for most time in space by a U.S. astronaut.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions. Josh Dinner. Tue, April 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC. 8 min read.