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The Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment
WUPPE was one of three ultraviolet telescopes on the
ASTRO-1 mission
flown on the space shuttle Columbia during 2-10 December, 1990.
98 observations of 75 targets were obtained.
The same three instruments were later flown on the space
shuttle Endeavour from 3-17 March, 1995, as part of the ASTRO-2 mission.
During the longer ASTRO-2 mission, 369 observations of
254 targets were obtained.