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Bookmark or Share- 3D Scanning Space Shuttle DiscoverySmithsonian's Digitzation Program Office collect 3D data of Space Shuttle Discovery. For the safety of the shuttle, people cannot walk underneath it in the gallery. The public can experience the magnificent object by walking around it from the ground level or up on surrounding walkways in its hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
- 5 Unusual Facts About Space Shuttle DiscoveryOn August 30, 1984, Space Shuttle Discovery took off on its first mission—beginning its nearly 30 years of space exploration. When Discovery retired in 2011, it was NASA’s oldest and most accomplished orbiter. It flew nearly 150 million miles and spent 365 days in space, flying just about every type of mission during the shuttle era.
- Space Shuttle program - National Air and Space MuseumThe 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.
- Forty Years of Discovery | National Air and Space MuseumSpace Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 9, 2011, just before noon, with the drag chute open to help slow the orbiter to a final wheel stop. Forty years on from that first visit to space, Discovery has now retired peacefully at our Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, welcoming visitors from ...
- When Enterprise Met Discovery - National Air and Space MuseumSpace Shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a welcome ceremony at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Chantilly, Va. Discovery replaced Enterprise inside the Center's James S. McDonnell Space Hangar after the ceremony, where it will remain on permanent display.
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