Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-31 (Hubble)
Lockheed Space Operations Company · Space Shuttle · Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Lockheed Space Operations Company's 26th launch · 3rd this year · humanity's 3,515th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Apr 24, 12:33 – Apr 24, 12:33 UTC
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STS-31 (Hubble)
STS-31 was the thirty-fifth mission of the space shuttle program. Discovery's tenth mission deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.
Astrophysics · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Crew
Steven HawleyMission Specialist · NASA
Bruce McCandless IIMission Specialist · NASA
Loren ShriverCommander · NASA
Kathryn D. SullivanMission Specialist · NASA
Charles BoldenPilot · NASA
Booster
No booster details available.
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- STS-31 launch & landing (4-24-90) — 3210andLiftoff
News
Hubble Sees Crimson Cloud and Stars
Blue and white stars shine brilliantly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this July 3, 2026, image of stellar nursery LH 95 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. LH 95 is a region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. Low-mass infant stars live alongside massive blue giant stars in […]
NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes
Astronomers using archival data from Hubble and supportive observations from Webb have located their first stellar-mass black hole in the star cluster Omega Centauri.
Hubble Captures Star-Studded Cluster
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up of ancient stars that formed at roughly the same time from the same cloud of gas, giving those stars similar ages. Around 150 known globular clusters are […]
NASA’s Hubble Spies Stellar Sparkler for July 4th
Red, white, and blue stars glitter like a sparkler being waved on a dark night in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA’s Hubble Captures Crimson Cloud Sparkling with White, Blue Stars
Blue and white stars shine brightly against crimson gas in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA’s Hubble Spots Star-Spangled Cosmic Scene
More than 500,000 stars blaze red, white, and blue in this NASA Hubble image of the globular cluster Messier 3 (M3).
