- Space Shuttle Discovery - Wikipedia
Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built [2] Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984
- Space Shuttle Discovery | National Air and Space Museum
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 from 1981 to 2011, the era of the Space Shuttle program
- Following the 1986 and 2003 Shuttle Disasters, ‘Discovery . . .
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 repeat of that terrible day on
- The Space Shuttle - NASA
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 and processing, it was launched on Aug 30, 1984, for its first mission, 41-D, to deploy three communications satellites
- Texas senators: Move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian . . .
U S Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday (April 10) introduced the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act," which directs NASA to take Discovery from the national
- 40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Discovery Makes its Public Debut
On Oct 16, 1983, NASA’s newest space shuttle, Discovery, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California Under construction for three years, Discovery joined NASA’s other two space-worthy orbiters, Columbia and Challenger, and atmospheric test vehicle Enterprise
- Discovery: NASAs Busiest Shuttle | Space
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 Discovery was
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