Space Shuttle Discovery - Wikipedia Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built [2] Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984
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
Following the 1986 and 2003 Shuttle Disasters, ‘Discovery . . . Discovery was ready to go back into the weightless expanse—the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster nearly three years earlier Would there be a repeat of that terrible day on
40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Discovery Makes its Public Debut On Oct 16, 1983, NASA’s newest space shuttle, Discovery, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California Under construction for three years, Discovery joined NASA’s other two space-worthy orbiters, Columbia and Challenger, and atmospheric test vehicle Enterprise