Discovery first flew in August 1984, completed 39 trips into space, and remains NASA's oldest surviving shuttle. Most famously, it delivered the Hubble telescope into space and returned Mercury ...

Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...