FOC being removed from the ESA/NASA Hubble space telescope during Servicing Mission 3B
Date: 07 March 2002
Depicts: FOC being removed
Copyright: NASA
FOC will, at the time of the Space Shuttle's landing on 12 March 2002, have spent 4340 days in space since the launch on 24 April 1990. This is the longest time that any piece of hardware has spent in space before being retrieved and returned to the ground.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
