On February 24 , 2011 , the space shuttle Discoverylaunched for the last time ever . Today , twelve day after , it ’s back on Earth after afarewell fire up up call by Captain Kirk .
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These were the voyages of the spaceship Discovery , which has been in celestial orbit for 365 Clarence Shepard Day Jr. during 39 missions . It flew out of our planet more time than any other spacecraft in history . During all these missions , she has been a redoubtable , beautiful machine .
Discovery facts
• Discovery was delivered from the manufacturing plant in Palmdale , California , to the Kennedy Space Center in November 9 , 1983 .
• Its first mission — STS-41 - D — was on August 30 , 1984 . It was a succeeder , landing on September 5 .
• Since then it has been in a record 39 missions , taking 246 people to space and wads of cargo .
• That ’s 5,628 orbit around our nursing home planet .
• That ’s a whooping total of 148,221,675 miles ( 238,539,663 kilometer ) . That mean that it could have move around to the Sun and back .
• It put into orbit 31 satellites .
• One of the orbiter have been a source of astonishment and data for the full earthly concern for more than two decade : On mission STS-31 , April 24 , 1990 , Discovery put theHubble Space Telescopeinto orbit . The universe and our sensing of the Universe changed just a few days later .
• It was the first shuttle to establish into space after the Challenger disaster .
• On STS-82 , Discovery reached the high EL in the place shuttlecock political platform .
• It carry Sergei Krikalev , the first Russian ever in a NASA starship .
• It also carried Senator and former astronaut John Glenn back into space in STS-95 in October 29 , 1998 . Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth and also the older man to go to infinite .
• Strangely enough , Discovery returned to infinite after the Columbia disaster on February 1 , 2003 . It also had the first night time launch after Columbia .
• On STS-63 , February 1 , 1995 , it had a rendezvous with the Russian MIR post , with the first distaff buffer in the shuttlecock program : Eileen M. Collins .
• It was the net shuttle to dock with the Russian MIR space post on mission STS-91 , which plunge on June 2 , 1998 .
• Discovery has docked 13 times with the International Space Station .
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After its last landing today , Discovery will be decommissioned and air to the Smithsonian Institution ’s National Air and Space Museum , where it will put back Enterprise ( the only shuttle that never fly to space ) .
This is a very lamentable sidereal day for outer space flight . Farewell , dear acquaintance . You will be very missed .
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