Space Shuttle Discovery

The history of Shuttle Discovery goes back to its maiden voyage that was launched on August 30, 1984. After the tragic losses of Challenger and Columbia, Discovery was the shuttle NASA went to, to get the program back on track. Have you heard of the Hubble Space Telescope? Discovery was the one to put it into orbit. This is its 39th time in space, more than any other shuttle. As of right now it has traveled 143 million miles, enough to go to the Sun and back and back to the Sun again.


Discovery also has a host of other firsts:

• to retrieve a satellite and bring it back home
• first and only shuttle to fly four times in ONE year 
• had the first Russian Cosmonaut on a U.S. Spacecraft 
• rendezvous with the Russian Mir Space Station 
• first female to pilot a U.S. spacecraft (Eileen Collins) 
• flew the oldest astronaut ever (John Glenn) 
• to perform a ‘back flip’ to check for damage 
• and have two female commanders (Pam Melroy and Peggy Whitson) 

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