Lift off of American and Discovery

With the launch of one of America’s greatest achievements yesterday, the space shuttle discovery, I thought I would take a moment to give you some interesting facts about the shuttle and introduce you to something as American as apple pie.

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On to the cool stuff! Here are some interesting Facts about the Space Shuttle Discovery.

NASA's most heavily travelled spacecraft, the shuttle Discovery, has had a storied 27-year career that has broken ground in many ways.

Here are some facts about the shuttle and some of its most memorable moments.

• First mission, STS-41D, was on August 30, 1984.
• Has completed 38 missions, and logged more than 5600 trips around Earth.
• Traveled a total of 230,003,477km so far, will add 7.2 million km on this final trip.
• Spent 352 days in space until now, for a total of 363 days by the end of this mission.
• Carried the Hubble space telescope into orbit in April, 1990.
  Has twice been the first shuttle to return to orbit after a major disaster: in 1988 after Challenger exploded in 1986; and again in 2005 after Columbia disintegrated in 2003.
• Is the oldest shuttle in the three-member fleet, due to the demise of Columbia and Challenger which were older.
• Was the first shuttle to be piloted by a woman, Eileen Collins in 1995.
• First shuttle to be commanded by a woman, also Collins, in 1999.
• Carried the first African-American astronaut spacewalker, Bernard Harris in 1995.
• Transported first sitting member of Congress in space, senator Jake Garn in 1985.
• Delivered part of Japan's Kibo laboratory to the ISS in 2008.
• Was the first shuttle to rendez-vous with the Russian Mir Space Station 1995.
• Has received 99 upgrades.
• By the end of this mission, will have transported 180 people in total.

The information about the shuttle was found on Nasa.gov.

Here are a couple of links to videos about the space shuttle and Discovery’s final launch.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/when-we-left-earth-the-shuttle.html
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4555653/discoverys-final-liftoff

It's a Good Life!!!
Greg Novak MBA
NMLS # 329079
Assistant Vice President
American Mortgage
Cell- 386-846-6686 Office - 386-756-8228
Website - http://www.americanmortgagenow.com/

Oh, by the way,If you know someone who is thinking about buying or refinancing a home, please give me a call with their name and number, I will be happy to follow up with them for you.

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