#sts-61

"This scene, captured with a 35mm camera from inside the Space Shuttle Endeavour, shows the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Moon together."

Date: December 13, 1993

"The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) begins its separation from the space shuttle Endeavour following a week and a half of repairs while in the space vehicle's cargo bay."

NASA ID: December 9, 1993

STS 61 – Scientist of the Day

The Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched Dec. 2, 1993, on a mission known as STS-61.

"Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman, in December 1993, signals directions to European Space Agency astronaut Claude Nicollier (out of frame), as the latter controls the Canadarm during the third of five spacewalks on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Astronauts Hoffman and F. Story Musgrave earlier had changed out the Wide Field\Planetary Camera (WF\PC)."

Date: December 7, 1993

"Endeavour with a Background of Dark Space and the Sun Displaying a Rayed Effect

One of Endeavour's spacewalkers on STS-61 captured this view of Endeavour backdropped with the blackness of space and the Sun displaying a rayed effect. The extended Remote Manipulator System arm that the astronaut was standing on for the photograph is seen in the left foreground."

Date: December 3-13, 1993

“An artist’s conception of the 1993 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission shows an astronaut positioned to the left of the telescope preparing to install the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR). The optics were designed and built at Ball Aerospace and Communications Group, in Boulder, Colo., to significantly correct the spherical aberration in Hubble’s primary mirror.

The servicing mission is scheduled for launch aboard Endeavor in December. The artwork shown was created by Ball artist, Scott Kahler.

Note the reflection of ‘ the cosmos’ on the closed aperture door of the engineering marvel…very nice touch."

Date: December 1993

"The Rescue Mission" by Mark Karvon, link.