HONG KONG: On April 24, 1990, just over 25 years ago, Space Shuttle Discovery launched from Kennedy Space Center as STS-31 with the Hubble Space Telescope aboard. Current NASA administrator Charles Bolden was the pilot, accompanied by Loren Shriver, Bruce McCandless, Kathryn D. Sullivan and Steven Hawley.
Hubble has now had a total of five servicing missions to keep it in shape for capturing some of the most stunning views of our universe to date. The last repair mission, in 2009, had quite a dramatic turn when astronaut Mike Massimino couldn’t remove a handrail that was blocking the compartment where one of the instruments was located.
Over the past two and a half decades, Hubble has meant a lot of things to a lot of people, but it might never have existed in the first place if not for one of its strongest proponents, astrophysicist John Bahcall.
Pakistan to get $3b loan from Islamic Trade Financing Corporation
ISLAMABAD: Islamic Trade Financing Corporation (ITFC) to provide Pakistan with a $3 billion loan, according to an official statement released...
