NASA Gallery - Space Shuttle Discovery
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Space shuttle Discovery rests in her new home in the Human Spaceflight hangar at the Smithsonian's Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Just one hour after Discovery's wheels stopped on her tow in to the facility, space shuttle Enterprise waits outside the door for her trip to Dulles Airport and eventually Intrepid Sea, Air, ...
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A space shuttle has 12 windows including the six that look forward from the flight deck. Each contains three panes of glass made of aluminum silicate and fused silica, two materials of extreme strength and heat resistance. They are protected inside and out at all times, uncovered only just before launch and recovered s...
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The airlock connects the mid-deck of the space shuttle with the cargo bay and the International Space Station (ISS). It is also the preparation area for extra-vehicular activities (EVA), otherwise known as spacewalks. During launch and reentry, the cylindrical airlock is used to store the bulky and heavy space suits us...
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Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) is seen a few hours before being demated at Washington Dulles International Airport, Wednesday, April 18, 2012, in Sterling, VA. Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in spa...
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The space shuttle Discovery is seen on launch Pad 39a after the Rotating Service Structure (RSS) is rolled back on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. During space shuttle Discovery's final spaceflight, the STS-133 crew members will take important spare parts to the Internat...
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Space Shuttle Discovery is on the pad preparing for the STS-133 flight. The crawler transporter is in the foreground.
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