Astronomy Picture of the Day

Explanation: Space Shuttle Discovery launches while the Space Shuttle Columbia is readied for a future mission. Space shuttles are launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At this date there are four operating space shuttles: Atlantis, Columbia, Discovery, and Endeavour. This mission is most famous for carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. The Hubble Space Telescope is the largest public optical telescope ever to operate in orbit, and because it is above Earth's atmosphere it's photographs are more clear than any ground based telescope. Hubble continues to make fundamental discoveries about planets, stars, galaxies, comets, QSOs, and the universe we live in.

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Publications with keywords: space shuttle Discovery - space shuttle Columbia
Publications with words: space shuttle Discovery - space shuttle Columbia
See also:

• Spacecrafts Streak Over Colorado
• Discovery in Twilight
• The International Space Station Expands Again
• Discovery Visits the Space Station
• Discovery Rollout Shadow
• Discovery s Cloud
• ISS and Astronaut

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