Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by endeavour and then atlantis. The space shuttle discovery flew 39 missions between 1984 and 2011, spending 365 days in space and traveling nearly 150 million miles, more than any other spacecraft. Discovery was the third space shuttle orbiter to fly in space
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The smithsonian institution says nasa relinquished full ownership of space shuttle discovery, but congress wants to force the vehicle's relocation.
The white house is reportedly seeking to move forward with a planned relocation of the discovery space shuttle from its longtime home in chantilly to texas
The office of management and budget (omb) has requested that the smithsonian institution work with nasa on preparing to transfer the orbiter from the national air and space museum's Discovery was ready to go back into the weightless expanse—the first space shuttle mission since the challenger disaster nearly three years earlier Would there be a repeat of that terrible.
