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- 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
- The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery. Museum resists Trump . . .
The Smithsonian Institution says NASA relinquished full ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery, but Congress wants to force the vehicle's relocation
- 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
- Following the 1986 and 2003 Shuttle Disasters, Discovery Launched . . .
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
- Bid to relocate US Space Shuttle Discovery faces museum pushback - 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
- 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
- Discovery: Champion of the Space Shuttle Fleet
Flying more missions than any other shuttle, Discovery carried out every type of mission NASA had to offer, spending a total of 365 days in space, and checking off many firsts in spaceflight
- Shuttle Discovery’s Texas transfer launches cost concerns
The space shuttle Discovery atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, makes one of several passes by the U S Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, on its way to to
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