Launch from Cape Canaveral (KSC); landing on Cape Canaveral (KSC).

First Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission; Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was successfully captured; first EVA by Hoffman and Musgrave on 05.12.1993 (7h 54m), replacing two sets of Remote Sensing Units (RSU) and a pair of electrical control units; after that the HST had a full set of six healthy gyroscopes.

Second EVA by Thornton and Akers on 06.12.1993 (6h 36m), in which two damaged solar arrays were replaced.

Third EVA by Hoffman and Musgrave on 07.12.1993 (6h 47m); this time the astronauts replaced two magnometers and the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC); the new camera has a higher rating than the previous camera.

Fourth EVA again by Thornton and Akers on 08.12.1993 (6h 50m); the primary task of this EVA was to replace the High Speed Photometer (HSP) with a device called COSTAR (Corrective Optics Space telescope Axial Replacement), which corrects the problem with the main mirror.

Fifth and final EVA by Hoffman and Musgrave on 09.12.1993 (7h 21m); they replaced one of two Solar Array Drive Electronics (SADE), a very difficult work, because it was primary not planned to exchange des SADE; during this EVA the solar arrays were deployed after a few problems; they also fitted an electrical connection box on the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) and installed some covers on the magnometers, produced onboard by Nicollier and Bowersox; after this spectacular and very difficult work, the HST was again released.