Space shuttle Discovery ignites for liftoff on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida beginning its final flight to the International Space Station on the STS-133 mission.

My cell phone camera isn't great at night sky photos, but I tried anyway – just in case. Discovery was the first space shuttle I ever watched launch into space in person, so it was nice to catch ...

[Photo and caption by Steve Jurvetson] Space shuttle Discovery rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, into darkness for its trip to the ...

One of the best ways to learn is to study ... Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Photo: Andrew Liszewski/Gizmodo The Space Shuttle Discovery is the most famous of the five fully functional ...

To assist in reporting the anticipated launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery ... with a mandatory photo credit of “Space Imaging.” The images are best displayed at 1:1 and may be cropped.

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. Tony Hertz Telegram-Tribune file After test glide and landings upon release from aircraft in 1977 ...

In one of the photos, the Discovery is practically touching nose to nose with a test shuttle Enterprise that never went into space.

The space shuttle Discovery made its historic final voyage ... closed to the public for safety reasons but offers one of the best views of Washington and the surrounding area.

Construction begins on Discovery, the third space shuttle in NASA's fleet ... news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

NEW YORK – Amateur astronomers around the world have caught amazing views of NASA's space shuttle Discovery in ... [Hoffman's Discovery photo is here] The gleaming metal Unisphere, alas, was ...