1990: STS-31 — el telescopio espacial Hubble es lanzado desde el transbordador Discovery

STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

STS-31 was the 35th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the tenth flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary purpose of this mission was the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) into low Earth orbit. Discovery lifted off from Launch Complex 39B on April 24, 1990, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.