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The joint ESA/NASA project Hubble Space Telescope was carried into orbit by the American space shuttle Discovery, launched on April 24th 1990. This update is organised as follows:
A- ROLL: various footage of the 1993 Endeavour mission (launched December 2nd), mainly EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity) on the telescope; interviews with scientists involved in the project; superb Hubble images on computer monitor.
B-ROLL: images of HUBBLE through shuttle windows, EVA astronauts working, astronaut opens hatch into Hubble, astronauts on remote operations arm with Earth in background, scientist with images on computer screen, walking through doors of ESTEC; researchers in library, in front of computer terminal, Hubble images, various interviews throughout.
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00:02:00:00 start of A-roll
00:05:57:00 end of A-roll
00:06:00:00 title: B-roll follows
00:06:10:00 mls HST [Hubble Space Telescope] through shuttle window
00:06:15:00 gv shuttle flight deck
00:06:20:00 ls 2 EVA astronauts, one on shuttle remote arm and the other moving along cables, HST in b/g
00:06:36:00 mls EVA astronaut on remote arm opens door of HST
00:06:45:00 gvs' insertion and extraction of components to and from HST
00:07:11:00 ls 2 EVA astronauts on end of remote arm, HST to l
00:07:21:00 vls EVA astronaut moves along shuttle, HST to r
00:07:30:00 mcs astronaut with tools on robot arm
00:07:39:00 mcs HST scientist [interview]
00:08:12:00 mcs side view HST scientist sits with computer
00:08:20:00 var s' HST images on monitor
00:08:41:00 var s' HST scientist walks from car into ESA building
00:09:09:00 mcs HST scientist [interview], monitor displays HST images in b/g
00:10:06:00 side view HST scientists study image on monitor
00:10:11:00 gvs' researchers in library
00:10:23:0