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Hubble space telescope deployment 04/1990

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-sou01-10013

Date

2006-11-13

Deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope from the payload bay, guided by the shuttle's robotic arm. The giant spaceborne telescope was put into orbit to collect information about a large variety of astronomical objects, from neighboring planets and stars to the most distant galaxies and quasars.