In December 1993 astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour performed ... above the Earth. The repair worked, and Hubble began to deliver crystal-clear images. Hubble's images have helped to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery back in 1990 ... Five missions have been completed to repair, upgrade and replace systems on the telescope ...

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Hubble was designed to receive periodic visits from space shuttle astronauts who would perform routine maintenance and instrument upgrades. The last such service visit took place in 2002 ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids in the Kuiper Belt could be triplets.

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 ...