Space Shuttle Discovery

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Shuttle Orbiter Discovery (NASA Designation: OV-103) is a NASA Space Shuttle.

First flown on August 30, 1984, Discovery is the third operational shuttle (excluding test shuttle 'Enterprise'). The orbiter is still operational today, and has performed both research and International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions.

The craft takes its name from HMS Discovery, a ship that accompanied explorer James Cook on his third and final major voyage.

Table of contents

1 Flights
2 See also
3 External links

Flights

Space Shuttle Discovery has flown 30 flights, spent 241.95-days in space, completed 3,808 orbits, and flown 98,710,673 miles in total, as of February 2003.

Date Designation Notes
1984 August 30 STS-41-D Launched two communications satellites
1984 November 8 STS-51-A Launched two and rescued two communications satellites
1985 January 24 STS-51-C Launched DOD Magnum ELINT satellite
1985 April 12 STS-51-D Launched two communications satellites
1985 June 17 STS-51-G Launched two communications satellites
1985 August 27 STS-51-I Launched three communications satellites
1985 September 29 STS-26 Return to flight, launched TDRS
1988 March 13 STS-29 Launched TDRS
1989 November 22 STS-33 Launched DOD Magnum ELINT satellite
1990 April 24 STS-31 Launch of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
1990 October 6 STS-41 Launch of Ulysses
1991 April 28 STS-39 Launched DOD Air Force Program-675 (AFP675) satellite
1991 September 12 STS-48 Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)
1992 January 22 STS-42 International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1)
1992 December 2 STS-53 Department of Defense payload
1993 April 8 STS-56 Atmospheric Laboratory (ATLAS-2)
1993 September 12 STS-51 Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS)
1994 February 3 STS-60 Wake Shield Facility (WSF)
1994 September 9 STS-64 LIDAR In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE)
1995 February 3 STS-63 Rendezvous with Mir space station
1995 July 13 STS-70 7th Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS)
1997 February 11 STS-82 Servicing Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
1997 August 7 STS-85 Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes
1998 June 2 STS-91 Final Shuttle/Mir Docking Mission
1998 October 29 STS-95 Second flight of John Glenn
1999 May 27 STS-96 Resupply mission for the International Space Station
1999 December 19 STS-103 Servicing Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
2000 October 11 STS-92 International Space Station Assembly Flight
2001 March 8 STS-102 International Space Station crew rotation flight
2001 August 10 STS-105 International Space Station crew and supplies delivery