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
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
Space Shuttle Discovery | National Air and Space Museum Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space From 1984 to 2012, Discovery flew 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million km (150 million mi) —more than the other orbiters
Space Shuttle - NASA Space shuttle Discovery (STS-31) comes in for a landing on April 29, 1990 An idea born in unsettled times becomes a feat of engineering excellence The most complex machine ever built to bring humans to and from space and eventually construct the next stop on the road to space exploration Beginning of dialog window