STS-31 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) drifts away from OV-103's RMS

Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with its solar array (SA) wings and high gain antennae (HGA) fully extended, is released from Space Shuttle Discovery's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103's, remote manipulator system (RMS) end effector and is set free into Earth orbit by the STS-31 crew, 24th-29th April 1990; the view covers a huge area of the western half of South America stretching from 14 degrees south latitude to 23 degrees, about 1,000 kilometers. HST drifts away from the end effector over the Andes Mountains. Parts of Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina are visible. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)