{"id":201784,"date":"2025-04-18T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=90c84d501c3e417636b2760f783f1e82"},"modified":"2025-04-18T06:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:25:18","slug":"space-shuttle-discovery-lifts-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=201784","title":{"rendered":"Space Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The seven-member crew lifted off at 8:59 a.m. ET, April 12, 1985.<\/div>\n
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The launch of space shuttle Discovery<\/a> is captured in this April 12, 1985, photo. This mission, STS-51D<\/a>, was the 16th flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and Discovery\u2019s fourth flight.<\/p>\n

Discovery carried out 39 missions, more than any other space shuttle. Its missions included deploying and repairing<\/a> the Hubble Space Telescope and 13 flights to the International Space Station \u2013 including the very first docking<\/a> in 1999. The retired shuttle now resides at the National Air and Space Museum\u2019s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia.<\/p>\n

Learn more about NASA\u2019s Space Shuttle Program.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The launch of space shuttle Discovery is captured in this April 12, 1985, photo. This mission, STS-51D, was the 16th flight of NASA\u2019s Space Shuttle program, and Discovery\u2019s fourth flight. Discovery carried out 39 missions, more than any other space shuttle. Its missions included deploying and repairing the Hubble Space Telescope and 13 flights to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7434,16394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-shuttle","category-sts-51d"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t