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STS-31 (Hubble)
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 24 Apr 1990, 12:33 pm UTC
Rocket: Space Shuttle
Provider: Lockheed Space Operations Company
Mission
Type: Astrophysics
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission Description
STS-31 was the thirty-fifth mission of the space shuttle program. Discovery's tenth mission deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.