Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

But Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit, and astronauts did just that during a space shuttle mission in December 1993. They fixed the mirror problem, giving Hubble the far-reaching 20/20 ...

Here are five space missions to watch in April 2025: April 1: SpaceX sends a crew to study Earth’s polars. April will start off with a bang as SpaceX prepares to launch its Fram2 mission ...

STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall. One day after reaching orbit (April 25), the STS-31 crew deployed Hubble, and then spent most of the duration ...