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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 astronaut Kenneth Cockrell with a digital Nikon NASA F4 HERCULES Reflected in the visor is the camera used for this astronaut "selfie" Astronaut Christopher Cassidy holding a camera while on EVA (Space-walk) NASA has operated several cameras on spacecraft over the course of its history.
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. [ 1 ]
STS-51 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that launched the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) in September 1993. Discovery's 17th flight also featured the deployment and retrieval of the SPAS-ORFEUS satellite and its IMAX camera, which captured spectacular footage of Discovery in space.
STS-31 was the 35th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the 10th flight of Discovery. The primary purpose of this mission was the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) into low Earth orbit .
The 122-foot-long-by-35-foot-tall space shuttle mockup, named the "Inspiration," was transported via big rig in multiple parts 0.3 miles along Bellflower Boulevard from a city maintenance yard to ...
Yes, the Buzz Lightyear, Pixar's toy spaceman extraordinaire, launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, spent 15 months on the International Space Station, and came back as one of the longest ...
It was the first major discovery of wreckage from the doomed 1986 shuttle launch in more than 25 years. ... all space shuttle artifacts are the property of the U.S. government. ... The Today Show.