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Last Flight of Space Shuttle Discovery: STS-133
NASA's space shuttle Discovery has flown its last mission after 27 years of spaceflight. On Feb. 24, 2011, Discovery blasted off on the STS-133 mission - a 14-day flight to the International Space Station. It was the 133rd NASA shuttle flight and 39th flight of Discovery. Relive the final voyage of space shuttle Discovery as it heads to a museum for public display.
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The most recent shuttle delays suggest an extra shuttle flight on the table may be threatened.
NASA is hoping to launch the space shuttle Discovery on its final voyage no earlier than Feb. 24, after months of delays due to cracked fuel tank supports.
NASA has delayed the space shuttle Discovery's launch yet again to allow more fuel tank repairs.
NASA has begun reinforcing support beams on the external fuel tank of the space shuttle Discovery after extensive X-ray imaging last week revealed new cracks in some of the structural supports.
While 2010 saw many historic successes in spaceflight and space science, plenty of things went wrong this year, too.
NASA technicians have wrapped up a series of X-ray image scans on the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, but several new cracks were detected on three of the beleaguered tank's support beams, agency officials said.
NASA has invited Santa Claus to drop by Kennedy Space Center this Christmas Eve to check out the agency's three space shuttles as they're prepared for their final missions.
Leaving the launch pad and rolling back to the Vehicle Assembly Building overnight, the space shuttle Discovery will spend the holidays having the external tank X-rayed as engineers look into the theory that its cracks resulted from stresses accumulated d
NASA pumped millions of gallons of super-cold propellants into space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank Friday morning to test why it had developed cracks along two support beams during a launch attempt last month.
To test a troublesome fuel tank on the space shuttle Discovery, NASA plans to fill the tank Friday morning and run a countdown to what would normally be its last few seconds before liftoff.
Amongst its myriad other tourist attractions and landmarks, the Big Apple could become home to one of NASA's retiring space shuttles following the retirement of the fleet in 2011, according to news reports.
NASA's space shuttle Discovery is all patched up for its planned final launch into space next week, NASA officials said today.
The Final Flight of Shuttle Discovery
NASA is targeting Dec. 3 for its next attempt to launch the space shuttle Discovery on its final voyage.
NASA engineers have found another crack – the fourth so far – in the metal skin of the external fuel tank attached to the space shuttle Discovery.
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NASA engineers have found another crack – the fourth so far – in the metal skin of the external fuel tank attached to the space shuttle Discovery.
As technicians continued repair work on the space shuttle Discovery, a third crack was found on the aluminum body of the orbiter's external fuel tank, the latest in a series of delays and glitches that prevented the workhorse shuttle from launching on its
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