STS-31

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Discovery mission NASA spaceflight Space Shuttle mission

STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Discovery mission → NASA spaceflight → Space Shuttle mission →
agency	NASA →
apoapsis	approximately 615 kilometers →
carriedPayload	Hubble Space Telescope support equipment → IMAX camera →
commander	Loren J. Shriver →
crewNationality	United States →
crewSize	5 →
deploymentMethod	Remote Manipulator System →
followedBy	STS-41 →
hubbleDeploymentDate	1990-04-25 →
hubbleOrbitInsertion	low Earth orbit at about 600 km altitude →
inclination	approximately 28.5 degrees →
isHubbleDeploymentMission	true →
landingDate	1990-04-29 →
landingLocation	Edwards Air Force Base, California →
landingSite	Edwards Air Force Base →
launchCountry	United States →
launchDate	1990-04-24 →
launchLocation	Kennedy Space Center →
launchSite	Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B →
launchYear	1990 →
missionDesignation	STS-31 →
missionDuration	5 days → approximately 121 hours →
missionPatchFeature	Hubble Space Telescope imagery →
missionSpecialist	Bruce McCandless II → Kathryn D. Sullivan → Steven A. Hawley →
notableFor	Deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit →
operator	NASA →
orbiter	Discovery →
orbitPeriod	approximately 96 minutes →
orbitType	low Earth orbit →
payload	Hubble Space Telescope →
periapsis	approximately 600 kilometers →
pilot	Charles F. Bolden Jr. →
precededBy	STS-36 →
primaryObjective	Deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope →
program	Space Shuttle program →
spacecraft	Space Shuttle Discovery →
usedLaunchVehicle	Space Shuttle Discovery →
usedRemoteManipulatorSystem	Canadarm →
wasFirstToDeploy	Hubble Space Telescope →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Faint Object Camera → Faint Object Spectrograph → Hubble Space Telescope →	launchMission
STS-31 →	missionDesignation
Space Shuttle Discovery →	notableMission