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(FILES) In this dated April 24, 1990 filed photo shows the Shuttle Discovery lifts off launch pad, carrying a crew of five and the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble, the first space telescope which revolutionized astronomy and our vision of the universe by transmitting images of remote galaxies. The US space shuttle is part cargo truck, part passenger bus, part airplane built for orbit, and has known soaring highs and devastating lows during its 30-year career in spaceflight. The shuttle program was born in 1972 with the decision by president Richard Nixon to launch the program, which would become the major focus of US human spaceflight ambitions over the next four decades. The shuttle program launched its first return-to-flight mission in September 1988 with Discovery, the same orbiter that in 1990 would deploy the Hubble Space Telescope, which has revolutionized the world's knowledge of astronomy. The Hubble mission was piloted by Charles Bolden, who today is NASA's chief administrator and the first African-American to hold the US space agency's top post. AFP PHOTO / BOB PEARSON / FILES
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida, UNITED STATES |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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BOB PEARSON |
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3 Iulie 2011 |
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2000 x 3000 (948.46 KB) |
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