Space Shuttle Discovery launched on STS-82, NASA's second Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission; astronauts replaced two science instruments with the STIS and NICMOS instruments across five spacewalks and reboosted Hubble's orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.1 T
- Flight
- 82nd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 11 February 1997, 08:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1997-004
- Launches in 1997
- 5th of 89
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