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- 24 APRIL 1990
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- PICTURE # S31 - 76 - 039
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- Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
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- STS-31R - On-board Scene - The huge Hubble Space Telescope
- (HST), backdropped against the Bolivian, Chilean and Peruvian
- topography some 332 nautical miles away, and the Space
- Shuttle Discovery, represented in this scene by its Remote
- Manipulator System (RMS) arm, begin their relative separation
- in space. The chalk-colored feature directly beneath HST is
- called Salar de Uyuni. Lake Titicaca is in upper right, and
- Lake Fuopo is under partial cloud cover near the RMS's end
- effector. The photograph, one of the first eight STS-31R
- on-board frames to be released by NASA, was taken with a
- hand held Hasselblad camera by one of the five busy
- crew-members in Discovery's cabin.
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