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Discovery was named for two famous British ships of exploration in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its first flight was on August 30, 1984. Discovery was NASA’s “workhorse shuttle’. During 39 missions between 1984 and 2011, it spent a total of one year in space and traveled 149 million miles.
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