At the end of his last voyage, the ship will go to a museum, so, to end the use of the vehicles traveled in space . After several delays and suspension of flights to launch 39 missions in 133 starts the beginning of the end for the shuttle was glorious. (Photo from Cape Kennedy, Florida)
begins the end of space travel for NASA.
were glory days of NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA) - release their three surviving machines, with "Discovery" first finish die down to make way for "Atlantis" and "Endeavour" in the term of the three decades that drive this program.
Starting this summer, space transportation will be provided by private companies.
Starting this summer, space transportation will be provided by private companies.
Another historical record. Outside
be his last trip, Discovery once again make history by taking your board, the first humanoid robot called simply, R2 a kind of machinery with human overtones waist-to-head, which remain enclosed in a box until the day the ship returns to earth in more than a week, thus completing a 147.5 million miles, started in 1984. Great Discovery wins.
success in its list of the ship features have led to the Hubble space telescope, the first Russian cosmonaut on a U.S. shuttle to rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir, to be handled by the first woman pilot back to Earth astronaut John Glenn Commander of the class "Mercury" and the important life back to NASA after the accident "Challanger" and "Columbia."
a glorious end!
into March, Disovery posteriodad stay for one of the great halls of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, available to public view, possibly in your next visit to the capital!
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