Photo: the Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the departing space shuttle Atlantis, flying STS-125, HST Servicing Mission 4, 19 May 2009. Credit: Ruffnax; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day, a Scientific Marvel: Hubble Space Telescope Was Launched

By Tony Pettinato on April 24, 2018

After seven long years of frustrating delays, the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched into space on 24 April 1990 by the space shuttle Discovery... (Read More)

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