Discovery Shuttle

Not since 2011, during the final flight of the space shuttle Discovery, have there been six vehicles parked at the ISS at the same time.

Robin Williams helped wake up the crew of NASA's space shuttle Discovery to start their morning in 1988.

His computer, the Grid Compass, was designed in 1979 and initially used by the US military. It retailed at $8,150 and was installed on board the space shuttle Discovery in 1985.

Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital on Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new museum home.

At daybreak on Tuesday, the oldest of NASA's retired shuttle fleet will leave its home at Kennedy Space Center for the final time, riding on top of a modified jumbo jet. Its destination: the Smithsonian Institution's hangar outside Washington, D.C. The plane and jet will make a farewell flight over Cape Canaveral before heading north. The pair al...

The oldest and most travelled space shuttle, Discovery, landed back on Earth on Wednesday after its final space flight. It will now be kept at a museum.The shuttle cruised onto the runway at Kennedy Space Centre at 1657 GMT, wrapping up a rich, 27-year career in spaceflight that has spanned more distance and endured longer than any of the remaining...

Its decades-long mission accomplished space shuttle Discovery headed home to retirement after undocking from the International Space Station on Monday for the last time.The world's most-flown spaceship got a dramatic send-off by "Star Trek's" original Capt. Kirk."Space, the final frontier," actor William Shatner proclaimed in a pre-recorded tribute...

With seconds to spare after a last-minute glitch, the repaired shuttle Discovery, grounded since November because of vexing fuel tank cracks, rocketed into orbit Thursday on its 39th and final flight, setting off for the International Space Station to deliver supplies, equipment and a final American storage module.The countdown proceeded smoothly i...

Shuttle Discovery and its astronauts returned safely to Earth after making a rare flyover of America's heartland.

NASA fueled Discovery late on Sunday for a pre-dawn launch to the International Space Station, one of the last few shuttle flights.

American space agency NASA is investigating how a bag of cocaine got into the hangar that houses space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts took a cross-country detour and landed safely in California.

Thunderstorms and high winds forced NASA to abandon a first attempt to land the space shuttle Discovery.

The shuttle linked up 350 kilometers above Australia.

It will fit a final pair of solar wings to the station.

Not since 2011, during the final flight of the space shuttle Discovery, have there been six vehicles parked at the ISS at the same time.

Robin Williams helped wake up the crew of NASA's space shuttle Discovery to start their morning in 1988.

His computer, the Grid Compass, was designed in 1979 and initially used by the US military. It retailed at $8,150 and was installed on board the space shuttle Discovery in 1985.

Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital on Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new museum home.

At daybreak on Tuesday, the oldest of NASA's retired shuttle fleet will leave its home at Kennedy Space Center for the final time, riding on top of a modified jumbo jet. Its destination: the Smithsonian Institution's hangar outside Washington, D.C. The plane and jet will make a farewell flight over Cape Canaveral before heading north. The pair al...

The oldest and most travelled space shuttle, Discovery, landed back on Earth on Wednesday after its final space flight. It will now be kept at a museum.The shuttle cruised onto the runway at Kennedy Space Centre at 1657 GMT, wrapping up a rich, 27-year career in spaceflight that has spanned more distance and endured longer than any of the remaining...

Its decades-long mission accomplished space shuttle Discovery headed home to retirement after undocking from the International Space Station on Monday for the last time.The world's most-flown spaceship got a dramatic send-off by "Star Trek's" original Capt. Kirk."Space, the final frontier," actor William Shatner proclaimed in a pre-recorded tribute...

With seconds to spare after a last-minute glitch, the repaired shuttle Discovery, grounded since November because of vexing fuel tank cracks, rocketed into orbit Thursday on its 39th and final flight, setting off for the International Space Station to deliver supplies, equipment and a final American storage module.The countdown proceeded smoothly i...

Shuttle Discovery and its astronauts returned safely to Earth after making a rare flyover of America's heartland.

NASA fueled Discovery late on Sunday for a pre-dawn launch to the International Space Station, one of the last few shuttle flights.

American space agency NASA is investigating how a bag of cocaine got into the hangar that houses space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts took a cross-country detour and landed safely in California.

Thunderstorms and high winds forced NASA to abandon a first attempt to land the space shuttle Discovery.

The shuttle linked up 350 kilometers above Australia.

It will fit a final pair of solar wings to the station.