US museum to welcome space shuttle Discovery
Discovery on Thursday will become the first spaceship of the retired US shuttle fleet to enter its permanent home as a museum artifact, marking a solemn end to the 30-year US space flight program.
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Discovery on Thursday will become the first spaceship of the retired US shuttle fleet to enter its permanent home as a museum artifact, marking a solemn end to the 30-year US space flight program.
(AP) -- The space shuttle Discovery went out in high-flying style.
(AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete.
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft glides down the runway of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
(Phys.org) -- NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery mounted atop will fly approximately 1,500 feet above various parts of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, April 17.
(AP) -- The Smithsonian Institution plans a four-day festival with NASA to welcome space shuttle Discovery into its collection in April.
(AP) -- John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA's Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight.
(AP) -- John Glenn fever gripped Cape Canaveral on Friday, just as it did half a century ago when America was on the verge of launching its first man into orbit.
The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight. John Glenn.
Astronauts and robots have united in space with a healthy handshake.