Space Shuttle Discovery: A History

On Wednesday, the Space Shuttle Discovery will lift off for the final time. Named for three separate British ships (Captain James Cook's HMS Discovery, Henry Hudson's Discovery, and Captain George Nares's HMS Discovery), the shuttle will have seen 39 missions in 26 years.

In honor of the ship's retirement, we've pulled together some of the Discovery's most exciting moments in its quarter-century of space travel.


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