Next week marks the 29th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. On April 24,1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into space, or just one day later,astronaut — and, fittingly, and astronomer — Steve Hawley used the Canadarm to grasp Hubble,pull it from the payload bay, and deploy it into its own orbit around soil.
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