Very Disco

Photo: NASA

This is it; Discovery, NASA’s oldest space shuttle, re-entered earth’s atmosphere for the last time on Wednesday march 9th. Over a 27-year career and 39 missions, it spent 365 days in space; it orbited almost 8,600 times, travelling about 150 million miles and it has carried 246 people into space.

These are a few noticeable achievements of Discovery:

- It is Discovery that took Hubble (yes, you know him, he’s the satellite who gave us hundreds of incredible pictures from space => Gallery) in 1990. It flew back to Hubble twice for service missions since then.

- John Glenn, the first American in space flew it in 1998 and became the oldest person to fly in space, at the age of 77.

- After Columbia’s tragic accident in 2003, discovery became the oldest shuttle in the fleet.

Photo: NASA