The Space Shuttle Discovery

The Champion of the Space Shuttle era, Discovery was by far the most traveled and celebrated orbiter.

Notable Missions

STS-41-D: First flight of Discovery in 1984

STS-31: Deployed the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990

STS-60: First joint U.S.-Russian space shuttle mission in 1994

STS-82: Second servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997

STS-133: Final mission of Discovery in 2011

A picture of the orbiter Discovery.

Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-133

Key Facts About Discovery:

Undertook 39 missions
Spent 365 Days in Space
Travelled 150 Million Miles
Was the back to space Mission teice, after Challanger and Columbia
Has a Lego Set based off it which is on my mantle

“An entirely new type of space transportation system designed to help transform the space frontier of the 1970’s into familiar territory, easily accessible for human endeavor in the 1980’s and ’90’s.”— President Richard M. Nixon,

Further Exploration:

You can learn more about the Space Shuttle Discovery by visiting these links: Discovery Wikipedia Page | Air And Space Musuem | Astronauts of Space Shuttle Discovery | General Information on the Space Shuttles

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