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 Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most utilized orbiter Discovery was flown on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million kilometers (150 million miles)--more than the other orbiters
Space Shuttle - NASA Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and repaired satellites, conducted cutting-edge research and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station
Space Shuttle Discovery — Google Arts Culture Online Exhibit Space Swag: Commemorative Pins, Patches, and Flags Explore the ways Space Shuttle Discovery was documented and remembered
Sen. John Cornyn to speak about bringing Space Shuttle . . . Much of the shuttle’s storied history was written in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center But today, Discovery rests far from Texas, on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and