
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS-- The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), still in the grasp of Discovery's remote manipulator system, is backdropped over Cuba and the Bahama Islands. In this scene, it has yet to have deployment of its solar array panels and its high gain antennae. This scene was captured with a large format AeroLinhof camera used by several previous flight crews to record Earth scenes.
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April 25, 1990
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