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Ready to be Released

Filed under pretty pictures, spacecraft, pics of spacecraft in space, Space Shuttle program, astronomy and astrophysics spacecraft, Hubble Space Telescope

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Ready to be Released The Hubble Space Telescope is lifted completely out of Atlantis' cargo bay on May 19, 2009 and release is moments away to start it on its way to observe the universe.

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Original image data dated on or about May 19, 2009

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