![Seen mostly in shadow with engines blazing white gouts of fire, Discovery rises into the dark sky.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/discovery-launch.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Discovery Launch Servicing Mission 2
Space Shuttle Discovery launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 3:55:17 a.m. EST on February 11, 1997, to begin STS-82, the second servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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