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Astro-1 Space Shuttle Mission
ASTRO-1 (STS-35)
was flown on board the Space Shuttle
Columbia December 2 -11, 1990.
The Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE) was one of three ultraviolet telescopes (the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) and the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) were the others) and one x-ray telescope (the Broad Band X-Ray Telescope (BBXRT)) on the ASTRO-1 payload. WUPPE made 98 observations of 75 targets (25 of which were prime WUPPE science targets).
