On May 11, 2009, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on the fifth and final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. During mission STS-125, astronauts installed two new instruments on the ...

NASA launched Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-125, the fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The half-ton ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA and ESA project, was launched on April 24, 1990, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission took place a few short years after the Challenger disaster, which blew a ...

SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video ... used NASA's space shuttles to launch multiple secret missions to orbit over the course of the decades-long program. Although that may sound ...

Space shuttle Atlantis launched on May 11 ... Hubble will dip into a lower and lower orbit and eventually burn up in Earth's atmosphere by the mid-2030s. Join our Space Forums to keep talking ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ever since.