Just before the end of the shuttle era, many at the Kennedy Space Center accompanied the launch. Discovery is now on its way to the International Space Station
The space shuttle Discovery took off tonight (Thursday, 23:50 p.m.) to the International Space Station, for mission STS-133 - its 39th and final mission. "It's good to be here" said mission commander Steve Lindsey after the shuttle's three main engines stopped working and the external fuel tank was cut off.
From the impression of the television broadcast, it seems that the launch was completely smooth, which is not trivial because the delay of almost six months resulted from the need to add reinforcement panels to the external fuel tank, which was damaged in the seam between the oxygen tank and the hydrogen tank.
A mini-drama occurred a few minutes before the launch when a computer fault was detected, but the technicians were able to overcome it.
Discovery was the shuttle that launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, and also the one that restored the mood at NASA after the two shuttle disasters - Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003.
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...what does "just before the end of the era of ferries" mean?
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