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.

[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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

hard work and pride of America’s space shuttle team.” Kennedy’s public affairs office normally comes up with the parting line. Souvenir photos of Discovery were set aside for controllers in ...

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 ...

See more photos from Discovery's final mission to space. This frame grab from a video -- shot by a GoPro Hero Motorsport camera aboard the Robonaut-1 balloon -- shows the shuttle Discovery ...