This week in 1999, space shuttle Discovery launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for an eight-day mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed and built at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
This week in 1999, space shuttle Discovery launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for an eight-day mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed and built at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Here, astronauts Steven L. Smith and John M. Grunsfield are shown during extravehicular activity replacing gyroscopes inside Hubble. The NASA History Program documents and preserves NASA’s remarkable history through a variety of products — photos, press kits, press releases, mission transcripts and administrators’ speeches. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the History Program’s Web page.
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