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ASTRO-1 telescopes

by

NASA/Novapix

Reference

e-sou18-00001

Date

2006-11-16

ASTRO-1 telescopes are documented in the payload bay of the space shuttle Columbia, and backdropped against the cloud-covered surface of the Earth. In the center of the frame are three ultraviolet telescopes mounted and precisely coaligned on a common structure, called the cruciform, that is attached to the instrument pointing system. December 1990.