Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

Its cargo bay—60 feet long ... Three of NASA’s four Great Observatories rode to orbit in the space shuttle. The Hubble Space Telescope went up in April 1990, followed by the Compton Gamma ...

Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis was in the final phase of their Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope ... would put the vehicles payload bay‐to‐payload bay providing ...

Former Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale has posted ... the crew conducted a series of five spacewalks to service the Hubble Space Telescope. It was a huge success. Hubble received new ...

Hubble and its fellow ... become reality with the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger.

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope flew aboard space shuttle Discovery, which makes this year the 35th anniversary of this incredible instrument. It is not hyperbole to say that this ...

In that era, planners imagined the shuttle carrying the X-37 to space in its cargo bay and releasing it. Now, with the shuttle's retirement looming, it appears the X-37 will have an independent ...

With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery, we can literally peer light years beyond what was possible before. Our deepest look ...