In Their Own Words: Astronauts On 25 Years of Hubble (Part 1)

IMAX view of the release of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in April 1990. Photo Credit: NASA

While the astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery may not have yet known it, April 24th, 1990 was a watershed date not just in spaceflight history, but in human history – STS-31 launched from LC-39B at NASA’s Kennedy [...]