When it comes to Discovery's engine fans think especially of the famous Land Rover. Yet there is another Discovery, that instead of four wheels, and a normal engine uses two massive wings and real reactors able to do travel outside the Earth's orbit. We speak of course of the NASA space shuttle, the Discovery precisely (codenamed OV-103) that after 27 years of loyal service - the first flight in 1984 - takes his leave to make way for future generations.
His departure from the scene - the last mission ended yesterday but the official announcement will probably be given on 12 April - is if we want an epochal moment in the history of aeronautics aerospace aircraft that has built up this much of his success . Just think of the International Space Station was built through the many missions that have occurred over decades and has recently seen a little bit of Made in Italy since it was on the space station has been put on permanent Leonardo module designed for the Italian Space Agency by Thales Alenia Space group Finmeccanica.
Among other "business" brought to completion by the shuttle - which takes its name from the ship of the Stanley Kubrick film "2001: A Space Odyssey" - the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope (April 24th 1990). The Discovery was also used to revive the fortunes of the aerospace missions after the Columbia space shuttle disaster on February 1, 2003 (STS-107) lost his life in which all the crew of seven astronauts.
Throughout his long career, the Discovery has made a total of 5,380 orbits around the Earth and traveled more than 200 million kilometers. 
His departure from the scene - the last mission ended yesterday but the official announcement will probably be given on 12 April - is if we want an epochal moment in the history of aeronautics aerospace aircraft that has built up this much of his success . Just think of the International Space Station was built through the many missions that have occurred over decades and has recently seen a little bit of Made in Italy since it was on the space station has been put on permanent Leonardo module designed for the Italian Space Agency by Thales Alenia Space group Finmeccanica.
Among other "business" brought to completion by the shuttle - which takes its name from the ship of the Stanley Kubrick film "2001: A Space Odyssey" - the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope (April 24th 1990). The Discovery was also used to revive the fortunes of the aerospace missions after the Columbia space shuttle disaster on February 1, 2003 (STS-107) lost his life in which all the crew of seven astronauts.
Throughout his long career, the Discovery has made a total of 5,380 orbits around the Earth and traveled more than 200 million kilometers.
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- VIDEO: Final landing of space shuttle Discovery (09/03/2011)
- Shuttle Discovery Comes Back to Earth for Final Time | NASA and Space Shuttles | Shuttle Discovery's STS-133 Mission | Space.com (09/03/2011)
- NASA's space shuttle Discovery successfully completed its final flight (09/03/2011)
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