Hubble Archive - Launch, STS-31

Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, April 24-29 1990

Astronauts: Loren Shriver, Charles Bolden, Bruce McCandless, Steven Hawley, Kathryn Sullivan

09:50 - Launch

12:27 - Opening bay doors

20:40 - Taking telescope out of payload bay

24:50 - Deploying the solar arrays

26:08 - Deploying the high gain antennas

26:56 - Unfurling the first solar array

30:16 - EVA preparation

31:24 - Unfurling the second solar array

32:00 - Second solar array gets stuck

34:30 - Disable tension monitoring software to unfurl the solar array

36:25 - Go for Hubble release

39:07 - Student experiment

43:50 - Commands sent to open aperture door

45:45 - Thank you to training crew

46:40 - Thoughts on historical significance

50:09 - Closing bay doors

50:58 - Shuttle re-entry and landing

54:59 - Astronauts exiting Shuttle