The workhorse orbiter, the oldest and most-flown shuttle in NASA's fleet, will be retired at the end of its 11-day mission to the International Space Station. To date, Discovery has traveled 143 ...

Landing was at 11:57 a.m. EST, completing the 13-day STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Space shuttle Discovery's 39th and final flight concluded on March 9, 2011. Here ...

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The mission encountered a couple of minor problems ... Then, 36 years later Glenn joined the crew of STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. He was 77 years old at the time, giving him an ...

the 39th flight for Discovery, and the 35th shuttle mission dedicated to station assembly and maintenance. The final flight of space shuttle Discovery lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

The space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off Saturday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 8:47 p.m. EST on one of the most complex missions ever to the International Space ...

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers spotted O-ring seal defficiencies that would doom Challenger a year ...

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Leroy became an astronaut in 1991 and flew space shuttle missions aboard Colombia in 1994, Endeavour in 1996 and Discovery in 2000. He has taken part in four spacewalks. Since quitting NASA he has ...

In its 30-year history since beginning in 1981, the Space Shuttle Program’s fleet — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour — flew 135 missions, clocking in at a total of ...

STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall. One day after reaching orbit (April 25), the STS-31 crew deployed Hubble, and then spent most of the duration ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force ... where it will fly at least three missions before returning for the first Vandenberg launch. Between five and 10 annual ...