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STS-61 was NASA's first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on December 2, 1993, from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The mission restored the spaceborne observatory's vision (marred by spherical aberration in its mirror) with the installation of a new main camera and a corrective optics package (COSTAR). This correction occurred more than three and a half years after the Hubble was launched aboard STS-31 in April 1990. The flight also brought instrument upgrades and new solar arrays to the telescope. With i

Key facts

Spaceflight.name: STS-61
Spaceflight.names_list: Space Transportation System-61
Spaceflight.image: STS061-98-050 - Astronauts Musgrave and Hoffman during servicing of HST (Retouched).jpg
Spaceflight.image_caption: Musgrave being raised to the top of Hubble by Canadarm, as it sits in Endeavours payload bay.
Spaceflight.mission_type: First Hubble Space Telescope servicing
Spaceflight.operator: NASA
Spaceflight.mission_duration: 10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, 33 seconds (achieved)
Spaceflight.orbits_completed: 163
Spaceflight.crew_size: 7
Spaceflight.launch_date: December 2, 1993, 09:27:00 UTC
Spaceflight.launch_rocket: Space Shuttle Endeavour
Spaceflight.launch_site: Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B
Spaceflight.launch_contractor: Rockwell International
Spaceflight.landing_date: December 13, 1993, 05:25:33UTC
Spaceflight.landing_site: Kennedy Space Center,SLF Runway 33
Spaceflight.orbit_reference: Geocentric orbit
Spaceflight.orbit_regime: Low Earth orbit
Spaceflight.orbit_inclination: 28.45°

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human spaceflight
Part of: Space Shuttle program
Operator: NASA
Followed by: STS-60
Follows: STS-58
Duration: 935917
Mass: 10949
Orbital period: 93.3
Image: STS061-98-050 - Astronauts Musgrave and Hoffman during servicing of HST (Retouched).jpg
Significant event: rocket launch