Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum Space Shuttle Discovery Discovery is an example of a Space Shuttle orbiter, a component of NASA’s Space Transportation System (STS) The STS consisted of a combination of a Space Shuttle orbiter, solid rocket boosters, and a fuel tank Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight in 2011 as the oldest and most
Space Shuttle program - National Air and Space Museum The Space Shuttle program ran from presidential approval in 1972 to its end in 2011 It was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the United States and NASA The Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS), was the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into orbit
3D Scanning Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum It took six tireless weeks to capture Space Shuttle Discovery, inside and out An epic project creates an epic amount of data, 4 2 TB to be precise These datasets were created using a variety of capture techniques including laser scanning, structured light scanning, and photogrammetry
Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum The space shuttle Discovery is the centerpiece of the James S McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va
John Glenns Return to Space on Discovery But Glenn’s return to space was distinctive because it came 36 years after his historic 1962 flight on the Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft, when he became the first American in orbit When John Glenn boarded the shuttle orbiter Discovery, now in the Museum’s collection and displayed at our Udvar-Hazy Center, he was 77 years old—the oldest person yet to venture into space
Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum Space Shuttle orbiter, delta-winged spaceplane design, covered with white thermal protection blankets and black thermal protection tiles; marked Discovery on both sides of forward fuselage
Shuttle Service to DC - National Air and Space Museum Much to the delight of large crowds below, Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), made several passes over the Washington, DC area yesterday Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA's shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles
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