Space Shuttle Discovery - Wikipedia 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 first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by Endeavour and then Atlantis
Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight in 2011 as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter
40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Discovery Makes its Public Debut In the course of its 39 missions spanning more than 26 years, Discovery flew virtually every type of mission envisioned for the space shuttle, including government and commercial satellite deployments and retrievals, launching and servicing scientific observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope, resupplying the Russian Mir space station
Bid to relocate US Space Shuttle Discovery faces . . . - Yahoo Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic Space Shuttle Discovery from a museum outside Washington to