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The United States
Space Shuttle
Discovery
had its
maiden flight
on August 30, 1984. Its
final mission
was almost twenty-seven years later.
Discovery
spent a total of almost a year in space. Its missions helped to assemble the
International Space Station
, and it flew the
Hubble Space Telescope
into orbit. The shuttle was decommissioned on March 9, 2011. Today
Discovery
is on display at the
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
of the Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum
.
Photo:
NASA
; edit:
John O'Neill
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