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Hubble Space Telescope launch

NASA engineers and officials are in the final moments of the countdown for the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope, their focus intense as they monitor systems f

Year 1990
Date 4/24
Location Kennedy Space Center, Florida, Usa
Layer 2
Visibility PUBLIC
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Key Figures

NASA Flight Director Lead Engineer Payload Specialist Telemetry Technician Public Affairs Officer
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 555 linked moments

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Hubble Space Telescope Launch
1990 · contemporaneous
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Space Shuttle Discovery Hubble Deployment (STS-31)
1990 · contemporaneous
S
STS-31 Hubble Space Telescope Launch
1990 · contemporaneous
A
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
1969 · same location
S
STS-26 Return to Flight
1988 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1
1981 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-26 Return to Flight
1988 · same location
S
Space Shuttle STS-26 Return to Flight
1988 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Endeavour First Flight (STS-49)
1992 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
1986 · same location
A
Apollo 12 Lightning Strike
1969 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
1986 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 Launch
2003 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (STS-51L)
1986 · same location
A
Apollo 11 Launch
1969 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
1986 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Discovery Hubble Deployment (STS-31)
1990 · same location
A
Apollo 11 Launch
1969 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (STS-51-L)
1986 · same location
A
Apollo 11 Mission
1969 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
1986 · same location
A
Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same location
A
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch
1969 · same location
A
Apollo 11 Launch
1969 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-41D Maiden Flight
1984 · same location
A
Apollo 11 Launch
1969 · same location
A
Apollo 11
1969 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
1986 · same location
A
Apollo 11 Launch
1969 · same location
S
Space Shuttle Challenger Launch
1986 · same location
S
Space Shuttle STS-26 Return to Flight Launch
1988 · same figure
S
STS-114 Return to Flight
2005 · same figure
F
First Silicon Transistor Demonstration
1954 · same figure
C
Completion of TRADIC, the First Transistor Computer
1954 · same figure
R
Release of the MOS Technology 6502 Microprocessor
1975 · same figure
E
Explorer 1 Launch
1958 · same figure