HST was designed, funded, and built by a partnership between the United States and the countries of the European Space Agency (ESA). The ESA's membership has changed since HST's original design and launch; the current members are linked below.
The key member changes on the list from HST's early daysare Germany, Romania, and the Czech Republic. This is due to the reunification of Germany and the collapse of the Communist governments in Eastern Europe following the breakup of the Soviet Union and fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Hubble space telescope.The name of the telescope launched into space in 1990 is Hubble Space Telescope.
The space shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Telescope into space.
The Hubble Space Telescope or HST was launched aboard the space shuttle Dscovery during mission STS-31 on the 24th of April 1990.
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 into space to take pictures the Earth and to relay them back to its ground crew. See the official Hubble Space Telescope website: http://hubblesite.org/ ~ Hexedgirl92
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit by NASA's space shuttle Discovery on STS-31 on April 24, 1990.
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Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in the cargo bay of a Space Shuttle that took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US.
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990. Its optics were corrected in 1993.
Edwin Hubble died in 1953. The space telescope named in his memory was launched in 1990.
The James Webb telescope.