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News Release: ESA's Hubble duo back on Earth after successful servicing mission
28-Dec-1999: ESA astronauts Claude Nicollier and Jean-Frangois Clervoy and their five fellow crew members on the Space Shuttle Discovery returned to Earth today (28 December at 0001 GMT) after a spectacular missio...
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News Release: Discovery finally lifts off on a Christmas mission to repair Hubble
20-Dec-1999: On the tenth scheduled attempt, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Discovery at 1:50 CET Monday morning on Hubble Servicing Mission 3A. The two previous launch attempts were called off due to poor weathe...
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News Release: European astronauts set for Hubble challenge
09-Dec-1999: Two of the European Space Agency 's most experienced astronauts are preparing to board the Space Shuttle Discovery as part of the international crew to be launched on an end-of-the-year mission to ser...
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heic9905
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News Release: HST - Telescope, Observations and Servicing Mission
25-Nov-1999: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a joint ESA /NASA project launched into a low-Earth orbit 600 km above the ground in 1990 by Space Shuttle mission STS-31. During its first nine years of operations...
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heic9904
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News Release: Hubble Space Telescope into safe hold as gyroscope fails
16-Nov-1999: Just 24 days before its third Servicing Mission, the Hubble Space telescope has been placed into a safe mode, triggered by a failure in one of Hubble's last three working gyroscopes.
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