Seven astronauts wear blue T-shirts: three men standing in the back row, and three men and one woman sitting at the table in the front row. On either side of them are US and ESA flags, and models of the space shuttle and the Hubble telescope.

Hubble SM 1 (STS-61) Astronauts

Astronaut Richard O. Covey, mission commander, is standing at left, with astronaut Kenneth D. Bowersox, pilot, seated at left. The five mission specialists for the mission are (left to right, seated) astronauts Kathryn C. Thornton and F. Story Musgrave, and the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Claude Nicollier; and (left to right, standing), astronauts Jeffrey A. Hoffman and Thomas D. Akers.

Credits: NASA