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Deployment

Crew members aboard the shuttle Discovery shot this photograph April 25, 1990. It shows the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope from the payload bay, guided by the shuttle's robotic arm. The giant spaceborne telescope was put into orbit to collect information about a large variety of astronomical objects, from neighboring planets and stars to the most distant galaxies and quasars.

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