NASA’s space shuttle Discovery lifted off on its 39th and final mission into space from Kennedy Space Center. Shuttle carrying six astronauts, a humanoid robot called Robonaut 2, spare parts for the International Space Station. Discovery has made more than 5,000 trips around the Earth, logging more than 150 million miles. Shuttle was the shuttle that returned the U.S. to space flight after both the Challenger and Columbia accidents. It’s also the first space shuttle to have a female pilot, Eilleen Collins.”]
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