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US-SPACE-SHUTTLE-HISTORY-FILES
= MANDATORY CREDIT TO NASA ==
(FILES) In this dated April 25, 1990 filed photo by the STS-31 crew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, shortly before the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed, showing the extended golden solar blanket which will suply power to the Telescope. The giant spacecraft is being put in orbit to gather information about a large variety of astronomical objects, from neighboring planets and stars to the most distant galaxies and quasars. 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 / NASA / FILES = MANDATORY CREDIT TO NASA == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ==
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