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27 years, 39 missions, 149 million miles flown...now, a museum piece in the Smithsonian.
The most prolific orbiter shuttle, Discovery flew NASA's return to flight missions after both the Challenger and Columbia disasters, spent over 365 total days in orbit, and carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
The third of five orbiter shuttles built, Discovery was a much lighter craft (about 3600 kgs) than Columbia and Challenger, due to design optimizations. In addition to its milestone missions, Discovery was the orbiter which returned John Glenn to space at the age of 77 years, making him the oldest human to endure space travel.
Discovery is a key fixture in the Udvar-Házy complex of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum at Washington Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia, where it replaced the non-orbital shuttle, Enterprise, in April 2012.
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Preserved Clear Lake City, Houston, United States 29 Apr 2014 at the Space Center Houston with a replica Space Shuttle mounted to it (29°33'7.42"N 95° 5'49.84"W)
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The space shuttle Discovery is seen from the International Space Station as the two orbital spacecraft separate on March 7, 2011 after an aggregate of 12 astronauts and cosmonauts worked together for over a week. The area below is the southwestern coast of Morocco in the northern Atlantic. During a post undocking fly-around, the crew members aboard the two spacecraft collected a series of photos of each other's vehicle.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: iss026-E-032252
Date: March 7, 2011
The Space Shuttle Atlantis moves within 80 feet of Russia's Mir Space Station during rendezvous and docking operations. During the STS-74 mission, the crew used an IMAX camera to document the Space Shuttle Atlantis' rendezvous and docking with the Mir Space Station. The 65mm camera system was located in the Atlantis' cargo bay and provided a unique fish-eye perspective. These images were selected from footage that was incorporated in a large-format feature film about NASA's cooperative program with the Russians.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: s95-22092
Date: December 28, 1995
Editor's note: happy Friday, Flickr friends! While we can't all get this kind of sky view, hope you get to enjoy the waning gibbous moon in the skies over Earth this weekend.
This image taken by an astronaut aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-103 shows a panoramic view of Earth at moonrise.
Image and caption credit: NASA
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The NASA family lost seven of its own on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch.
In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Left to right are Teacher-in-Space payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe; payload specialist Gregory Jarvis; and astronauts Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist; Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, mission commander; Ronald E. McNair, mission specialist; Mike J. Smith, pilot; and Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist.
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The main landing gear of the Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down on the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility to complete the STS-86 mission. Touchdown occurred at 5:55:09 p.m. (EDT), October 6, 1997. Onboard were astronauts James D. Wetherbee, Michael J. Bloomfield, Wendy B. Lawrence, Scott F. Parazynski, Vladimir G. Titov, C. Michael Foale and Jean-Loup J. M. Chretien. Chretien and Titov represent the French Space Agency (CNES) and the Russian Space Agency (RSA), respectively.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts086-s-015
Date: October 6, 1997
Space Shuttle Endeavour, soon after it left the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). It's starting it's long trip to the launch pad. This was Endeavour's final mission- STS-134. I'm sharing some photos that I've taken over the past few years, but haven't shown anyone yet.
Space shuttle Discovery, July 4th 2006.
This was my 1st launch ever, it brought tears to my eyes as it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen :)
On display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's UDVAR-HAZY CENTER at the Washington Dulles International Airport
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at its prime, this thing was orbiting the earth at 25x speed of sound. now it's retiring at the old age of 25 and it has to ride on something that can barely do 0.8x. it must be how old people feel like when they are stuck on a wheelchair.
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A LEGO Technic scale model of the spaceshuttle. It has 8 motorized functions and comes with instructions for both a PF and a PU version. More information can be found on jeroenottens.com
The space shuttle Discovery is seen from the International Space Station as the two orbital spacecraft accomplish their relative separation on March 7 after an aggregate of 12 astronauts and cosmonauts worked together for over a week. The area below is the southwestern coast of Morocco in the northern Atlantic. During a post undocking fly-around, the crew members aboard the two spacecraft collected a series of photos of each other's vehicle.
Image credit: NASA
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An early morning in March, 1996. I am standing on the top of The Vehicle Assembly Building at The Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida after a very early morning launch of the Atlantis Space Shuttle had been scrubbed due to a technical problem. We got to come back a couple of nights later to view a successful launch. Taken with a Canon SureShot 35mm point and shoot camera on Kodak Gold film.
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The crew of the STS 61-A mission egress the Orbiter after landing. Astronaut Henry W. Hartsfield Jr., 61-A mission commander, shakes hands with George W.S. Abbey, Director of Flight Crew Operations at JSC, as the rest of the crew descends the steps. From left to right are Guion S. Bluford, Jr., James F. Buchli, Steven R. Nagel, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Wubbo J. Ockels, Ernst Messerschmid, and Reinhard Furrer.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 61a-s-140
Date: November 6, 1985
On Machester Ave just past the I405.
Got up early to go see it while it was still dark. This is an HDR of 3 shots on a tripod, I took 4 shots at each speed, and blended each set of 4 to eliminate as many people walking in front of it as I could. I like how the policeman is just a ghost. Then blended in Photomatix4 and tone mapped using Exposure Fusion. Then in PS applied Nik Color Efex (Dark Contrast, Pro Contrast). In PS cleaned up the sky, curves, dodging and burning.
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TOUCHDOWN! THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM ENDS. After 135 missions, Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center to end STS-135 and the 30 year space shuttle program.