The workhorse orbiter, the oldest and most-flown shuttle in NASA's fleet, will be retired at the end of its 11-day mission to the International Space Station. To date, Discovery has traveled 143 ...

Landing was at 11:57 a.m. EST, completing the 13-day STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Space shuttle Discovery's 39th and final flight concluded on March 9, 2011. Here ...

The mission encountered a couple of minor problems ... Then, 36 years later Glenn joined the crew of STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. He was 77 years old at the time, giving him an ...

151; -- Space Shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts blasted off a minute before midnight on a mission to deliver supplies and a fresh crewmember to the International Space Station. NASA had ...

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers spotted O-ring seal defficiencies that would doom Challenger a year ...

In its 30-year history since beginning in 1981, the Space Shuttle Program’s fleet — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour — flew 135 missions, clocking in at a total of ...

STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall. One day after reaching orbit (April 25), the STS-31 crew deployed Hubble, and then spent most of the duration ...

NASA estimates that the Hubble Space Telescope has about 10 years of useful life before it burns up in an uncontrolled ...