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- 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 What was the Space Shuttle Program?
- Space Shuttle program - National Air and Space Museum
The Space Shuttle program ran from presidential approval in 1972 to its end in 2011 It was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the United States and NASA The Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS), was the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into orbit
- Discovery’s First Mission - National Air and Space Museum
Discovery entered service in 1984 as the third orbiter in the space shuttle fleet Columbia and Challenger had already flown a total of 11 missions as America’s “space truck ” Discovery’s first mission, STS-41D, followed suit as the crew deployed, for the first time, three communications satellites, but it also signaled how the shuttle could serve as more than a delivery vehicle
- Forty Years of Discovery | National Air and Space Museum
In total, six of unique Space Shuttle orbiters were built but Discovery stands out with the greatest flight history record: 39 missions and 365 total days spent in space That’s quite a feat for the journeys the orbiter took, but it’s also a testament to the team that made each of those flights possible On its 40th anniversary, Discovery’s curator Jennifer Levasseur takes a look at
- Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum
The space shuttle Discovery is the centerpiece of the James S McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center - National Air and Space Museum
The Udvar-Hazy Center displays thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including the Space Shuttle Discovery and a Concorde, in two large hangars
- John Glenns Return to Space on Discovery
When John Glenn boarded the shuttle orbiter Discovery he was 77 years old—the oldest person yet to venture into space
- Ellison Shoji Onizuka: The First Asian American in Space
When NASA astronaut Ellison Onizuka rode Space Shuttle Discovery into space on shuttle mission STS-51-C in 1985, he made history on several counts He was the first Asian American astronaut, the first astronaut of Japanese descent, the first person from Hawai‘i in space, and the first Buddhist in space His second space flight occurred just a year later in 1986 when Space Shuttle Challenger
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