Flights of Space Shuttle Discovery
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D iscovery was NASA's third space shuttle orbiter to join the fleet at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Discovery also is known inside the space agency by its designation Orbiter Vehicle-103, or OV-103. Construction of Discovery began on Aug. 27, 1979 and was completed four years later. Discovery rolled out of the assembly plant building in Palmdale, Calif., October 1983 and was first launched Aug. 30, 1984. When first flown, Discovery became the third operational orbiter, and it currently is the oldest orbiter in service. It was named after two historic, Earth-bound exploring ships of the past. One was a vessel used by Henry Hudson in the early 1600s to explore the Hudson Bay and search for a northwest passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The other was one of two ships used by the British explorer James Cook in the 1770s. Cook's voyages in the South Pacific led to the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. Another of his ships was the Endeavour, the namesake of NASA’s newest shuttle. Discovery has had many notable flights and was the Return to Flight shuttle following both the Challenger and Columbia accidents. Discovery is targeted to liftoff on its final mission, STS-133, on Nov. 1, 2010. It will be the first space shuttle retired from NASA's fleet. KEY DISCOVERY MISSIONS STS-41D - Maiden Flight STS-26 - Return to Flight after Challenger accident STS-31 – Launch of Hubble Space Telescope STS-60 – First flight of a Russian cosmonaut on a shuttle STS-63 – First Mir rendezvous; first female pilot STS-70 – First on-orbit shift in new Mission Control Center STS-82 – Highest altitude known for a shuttle flight STS-91 – Final shuttle-Mir docking STS-95 – Flight to return John Glenn to orbit as oldest human to fly in space STS-92 – Installation of the Z1 Integrated Truss Structure and PMA-3 to the International Space Station STS-102 – First ISS crew rotation STS-114 – Return to Flight after Columbia accident STS-116 – P5 Truss installed STS-124 – Delivery of Japan’s Kibo Laboratory to ISS STS-119 – Completed ISS Integrated Truss Segment STS-128 – Final use of the shuttle for full ISS crew rotation THE NUMBERS (Prior to STS-133) Total miles traveled: 142,917,535 Total days in orbit: 351 (8,441 hours, 50 minutes, 41 seconds) Total orbits: 5,628 Total flights: 38 Total crew members: 246 Mir dockings: 1 International Space Station dockings: 12 NASAfacts Discovery (OV-103) National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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final
mis
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pace
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SA
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KEY
DIS
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MIS
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NS
STS
-41D
- M
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n Fl
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STS
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to F
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– Fi
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ndez
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TS-7
0 –
Firs
t on-
orbi
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new
Mis
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Con
trol
Cen
ter
STS
-82
– H
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st a
ltitu
de k
now
n fo
r a s
huttl
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ght
STS
-91
– Fi
nal s
huttl
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ir do
ckin
gS
TS-9
5 –
Flig
ht to
retu
rn J
ohn
Gle
nn to
orb
it as
old
est h
uman
to fl
y in
spa
ceS
TS-9
2 –
Inst
alla
tion
of th
e Z1
Inte
grat
ed
Trus
s S
truc
ture
and
PM
A-3
to
the
Inte
rnat
iona
l Spa
ce S
tatio
nS
TS-1
02 –
Firs
t IS
S c
rew
rota
tion
STS
-114
– R
etur
n to
Flig
ht a
fter
Col
umbi
a ac
cide
ntS
TS-1
16 –
P5
Trus
s in
stal
led
STS
-124
– D
eliv
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of J
apan
’s K
ibo
Labo
rato
ry to
ISS
STS
-119
– C
ompl
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ISS
Inte
grat
ed
Trus
s S
egm
ent
STS
-128
– F
inal
use
of t
he s
huttl
e fo
r fu
ll IS
S c
rew
rota
tion
THE
NU
MB
ERS
(P
rior t
o ST
S-13
3)To
tal m
iles
trave
led:
142
,917
,535
Tota
l day
s in
orb
it: 3
51
(8
,441
hou
rs, 5
0 m
inut
es,
41 s
econ
ds)
Tota
l orb
its: 5
,628
Tota
l flig
hts:
38
Tota
l cre
w m
embe
rs: 2
46M
ir do
ckin
gs: 1
Inte
rnat
iona
l Spa
ce S
tatio
n
do
ckin
gs: 1
2
NASAfacts
Dis
co
ve
ry
(OV
-10
3)
Nat
iona
l Aer
onau
tics
and
Spa
ce A
dmin
istra
tion
Flights of Discovery (OV-103)Times Mission Launch Launch Landing Date Flown Name Crew Pad Date & Site Primary Payload
1 41-D Hartsfield, Coats, Resnik, Mullane, Hawley, Walker 39A 08/30/84 09/05/84 at Edwards SBS; SYNCOM IV-2 2 51-A Hauck, Walker, Fisher, Gardner, Allen 39A 11/08/84 11/16/84 at KSC TELESAT-H; SYNCOM IV-1 3 51-C Mattingly, Shriver, Buchli, Onizuka, Payton 39A 01/24/85 01/27/85 at KSC DoD 4 51-D Bobko, Williams, Seddon, Griggs, Hoffman, Walker, Garn 39A 04/12/85 04/19/85 at KSC TELESAT-1; SYNCOM IV-3 5 51-G Brandenstein, Creighton, Lucid, Nagel, Fabian, Baudry, Salman Al-Saud 39A 06/17/85 06/24/85 at Edwards MORELOS-A; ARABSAT-A 6 51-I Engle, Covey, Van Hoften, Lounge, Fisher 39A 08/27/85 09/03/85 at Edwards AUSSAT-1; SYNCOM IV-4 7 STS-26 Hauck, Covey, Lounge, Hilmers, Nelson 39B 09/29/88 10/03/88 at Edwards TDRS-3 8 STS-29 Coats, Blaha, Buchli, Springer, Bagian 39B 03/13/89 03/18/89 at Edwards TDRS-4 9 STS-33 Gregory, Blaha, Musgrave, Thornton, Carter 39B 11/22/89 11/27/89 at Edwards DoD10 STS-31 Shriver, Bolden, Hawley, McCandless, Sullivan 39B 04/24/90 04/29/90 at Edwards Hubble Space Telescope11 STS-41 Richards, Cabana, Shepherd, Melnick, Akers 39B 10/06/90 10/10/90 at Edwards Ulysses12 STS-39 Coats, Hammond, Bluford, Hieb, Harbaugh, McMonagle, Veach 39A 04/28/91 05/06/92 at KSC DoD13 STS-48 Creighton, Reightler, Brown, Gemar, Buchli 39A 09/12/91 09/18/91 at Edward UARS14 STS-42 Grabe, Oswald, Readdy, Merbold,Thagard, Hilmers, Bondar 39A 01/22/92 01/30/92 at Edwards IML-115 STS-53 Walker, Cabana, Bluford, Voss, Clifford 39A 12/02/92 12/09/92 at Edwards DoD16 STS-56 Cameron, Oswald, Cockrell, Foale, Ochoa 39B 04/08/93 04/17/93 at KSC ATLAS-217 STS-51 Culbertson, Readdy, Newman, Bursch, Walz 39B 09/12/93 09/22/93 at KSC ACTS18 STS-60 Bolden, Reightler, Chang-Diaz, Davis, Sega, Krikalev 39A 02/03/94 02/11/94 at KSC Wake Shield Facility-1; SPACEHAB-2 19 STS-64 Richards, Hammond, Helms, Meade, Lee, Linenger 39B 09/09/94 09/20/94 at Edwards LITE; SPARTAN-20120 STS-63 Wetherbee, Collins, Harris, Voss, Foale, Titov 39B 02/03/95 02/11/95 at KSC Mir rendezvous; SPACEHAB-321 STS-70 Henricks, Kregel, Currie, Thomas, Weber 39B 07/13/95 07/22/95 at KSC TDRS-722 STS-82 Bowersox, Horowitz, Lee, Hawley, Harbaugh, Smith, Tanner 39A 02/11/97 02/21/97 at KSC 2nd Hubble Space Telescope servicing23 STS-85 Brown, Rominger, Davis, Curbeam, Robinson, Tryggvason 39A 08/07/97 08/19/97 at KSC CRISTA-SPAS-2, JEM, TAS-1, IEH-224 STS-91 Precourt, Gorie, Lawrence, Chang-Diaz, Kavandi, Ryumin; 39A 06/02/98 06/12/98 at KSC 9th and final Shuttle-Mir docking Thomas (down from Mir)25 STS-95 Brown, Lindsey, Parazynski, Robinson, Duque, Mukai, Glenn 39B 10/29/98 11/07/98 at KSC SPACEHAB- SM; Spartan-201; HOST; IEH-26 26 STS-96 Rominger, Husband, Ochoa, Jernigan, Barry, Payette, Tokarev 39B 05/27/99 06/06/99 at KSC Orbital Transfer Device, Strela, ISS supplies27 STS-103 Brown, Kelly, Smith, Foale, Grunsfeld, Nicollier, Clervoy 39B 12/19/99 12/27/99 at KSC 3rd Hubble Space Telescope servicing28 STS-92 Duffy, Melroy, Chiao, McArthur, Wisoff, Lopez-Alegria, Wakata 39A 10/11/00 10/24/00 at Edwards 100th Shuttle Flight, Zenith Z1 Truss, 29 STS-102 Wetherbee, Kelly, Thomas, Richards, Voss, Helms, Usachev 39B 03/08/01 03/21/01 at KSC MPLM Leonardo, Expedition 2 Crew Up30 STS-105 Horowitz, Sturckow, Barry, Forrester, Culbertson, Tyurin, Dezhurov 39A 08/10/01 08/22/01 at KSC Expedition 3 Crew Up, Early Ammonia Servicer31 STS-114 Collins, Kelly, Robinson, Thomas, Camarda, Lawrence, Noguchi 39B 07/26/05 08/09/05 at Edwards RTF, MPLM Raffaello, HRF-2, OBSS 32 STS-121 Lindsey, Kelly, Fossum, Nowak, Wilson, Sellers, Reiter 39B 07/04/06 07/17/06 at KSC Umbilical Reel Assembly, MPLM Leonardo 33 STS-116 Polansky, Oefelein, Curbeam, Higginbotham, Patrick, Fuglesang; 39B 12/09/06 12/22/06 at KSC P5 truss Williams (up to ISS); Rieter (down from ISS)34 STS-120 Melroy, Zamka, Parazynski, Wheelock, Wilson, Nespoli; 39A 10/23/07 11/07/07 at KSC Harmony Node 2 Tani (up to ISS); Anderson (down from ISS) 35 STS-124 Kelly, Ham, Nyberg, Garan, Fossum, Hoshide; 39A 05/31/08 06/14/08 at KSC Kibo Japanese Pressurized Module Chamitoff (up to ISS); Reisman (down from ISS) 36 STS-119 Archambault, Antonelli, Acaba, Arnold, Phillips, Swanson; 39A 03/15/09 03/28/09 at KSC S6 truss Wakata (up to ISS); Magnus (down from ISS)37 STS-128 Sturckow, Ford, Olivas, Forrester, Hernandez, Fuglesang; 39A 08/28/09 09/11/09 at Edwards MPLM Leonardo Stott (up to ISS); Kopra (down from ISS)38 STS-131 Anderson, Dutton, Mastracchio, Metcalf-Lindenburger, Poindexter, 39A 04/05/10 04/20/10 at KSC MPLM Leonardo Wilson, Yamazaki39 STS-133 Lindsey, Boe, Drew, Barratt, Kopra, Stott 39A International Space Station mission with the PMM, ELC-4 and Robonaut 2. Final planned mission for Discovery. F
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