\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> April 24, 1990
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Kennedy Space Center, Florida
\<COLOUR 1> FLIGHT TIME: \<COLOUR 0> 5 days 1 hr 16 min
\<COLOUR 1> LANDING SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Edwards Air Force Base, California
\<COLOUR 1> CREW: \<COLOUR 0> Loren J Shriver, Charles F Bolden, Bruce McCandless, Kathryn D Sullivan, Steven A Hawley
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USA
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> Launch of the much delayed 1,500 million dollar Hubble Space Telescope (HST); optics of the HST subsequently found to be faulty; repair mission planned for 1993.