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.

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.

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 ...

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.

The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley’s Comet. McAuliffe was part of the Teacher in Space Project, which was meant to ...

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.