launched from USA

STS-109

Success
MAR 01200211:22:00 UTC

The fourth servicing call on the Hubble Space Telescope, flown by Columbia. Over five spacewalks the crew installed the Advanced Camera for Surveys, which sharply increased Hubble's imaging power, replaced the telescope's flexible solar arrays with sturdier rigid ones, and fitted a cryocooler to revive its infrared instrument. It was Columbia's next-to-last flight before the orbiter was lost on STS-107.

launched from LC-39A Kennedy

aboard Space Shuttle Columbia into LEO

Payload

STS-109

HST servicing

Crew · 7

  • 01 Scott D. Altman from USA
  • 02 Duane G. Carey from USA
  • 03 John M. Grunsfeld from USA
  • 04 Nancy J. Currie from USA
  • 05 Richard M. Linnehan from USA
  • 06 James H. Newman from USA
  • 07 Michael J. Massimino from USA

last updated May 29, 2026