Discovery landed, and will be the most flown shuttle in the fleet. There are still two more missions, one for Atlantis, and one for Endeavour.
39 missions, 148 million miles, 5830 orbits of earth, and an accumulated 365 days in space.
My thanks to the people who designed and maintained Discovery; and to the crews that flew her, and the teams that planned the missions. Both times Discovery was the "return to space" craft, after losing Challenger and Columbia. Those were scary times I'm sure for the shuttle teams, knowing that a lot was riding on those missions.
Few government programs have inspired me like the space program. The shuttle fleet has been the face of it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41978588/ns/technology_and_science-space/
Someday I hope to take children to see at least one of the shuttles.
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