Welcome home, Discovery. You made us proud.
STS-133 was the 39th and final flight for OV-103 Discovery, which spent 365 days in space, orbited Earth 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 miles. She is the oldest of the remaining shuttle fleet, holds the record for highest altitude for a space shuttle, and was the shuttle launched for every return to flight from a shuttle accident.
Discovery carried the following major payloads to orbit during her career: TDRS 3, 4 and 7, Hubble, Ulysses, the Z1 truss, Harmony node, Kibo lab, S6 tuss, PMM node and serviced Hubble twice.
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