Discovery performed both research and International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions, and also carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit among other satellites. Discovery was the …

Sep 29, 2021 · Discovery was ready to go back into the weightless expanse—the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster nearly three years earlier. Would there be a …

The Space Shuttle Discovery flew every kind of mission an orbiter was meant to fly. As a historical object in the Museum's collection, it embodies the 30-year history of U.S. human spaceflight …

Apr 9, 2025 · Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and …

De eerste vlucht van de Discovery vond plaats op 30 augustus 1984.Sindsdien heeft de Discovery onder meer de ruimtetelescoop Hubble en de ruimtesonde Ulysses in de ruimte gebracht. In …

Space Shuttle Discovery: explore an icon of the shuttle era on Google Arts & Culture

Dec 11, 2017 · In 39 voyages to space, Discovery crews launched the Hubble Space Telescope, sent the Ulysses spacecraft to study the sun and helped build the International Space Station. …

Space Shuttle Discovery was the third operational shuttle, the third orbiter built and the lightest. It flew 39 times and was first launched in 1984.

Oct 20, 2023 · This week, NASA commemorated the 40th anniversary of the public unveiling of Space Shuttle Discovery, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to honoring significant …

Jun 2, 2023 · Discovery (OV-103) was NASA’s third space shuttle orbiter to join the fleet, arriving for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in November 1983. After checkout …