The shuttle spent 12 days and 19 hours in space on its 39th flight - more than any other shuttle
The space shuttle Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this evening at three minutes before seven in the evening, after a 12-day journey during which it spent about eight days on the International Space Station and its crew performed two spacewalks.
This was Discovery's 39th mission, and it actually captured the space shuttle flight record so far both in the number of missions and in the number of flight hours.
In about a year, the Discovery will be moved to the Space and Aviation Museum in Washington, where millions of people will be able to watch it after about 30 years of operational activity.
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What is NASA's plan regarding the tools that are supposed to fly into space?
So now how will they travel to space?
Endeavor or Atlantis should be brought to the museum on the premises!
Two more tasks remain. The first of the space shuttle Endeavor on the STS-134 mission and the second of the space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-135 mission. Both are planned for 2011.
מקור: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/index.html
My father has a few flights left