Refitting the shuttle with all of the necessary equipment for it to be used in space was considered, but NASA decided to use spares constructed at the same time as Discovery and Atlantis to build Endeavour.

At that time the shuttle fleet was expanded to include Discovery and Atlantis.

The upgrade also involved replacing many of the white LRSI tiles on the upper surfaces with Advanced Flexible Reusable Surface Insulation ( AFRSI ) blankets ( also known as Fibrous Insulation Blankets, or FIB's ) after their successful use on shuttle Discovery and Atlantis.

Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by Endeavour and then Atlantis.

Discovery was the shuttle that launched the Hubble Space Telescope.

* September 29 – STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

She is featured in the IMAX movie Destiny in Space, and has also co-anchored the Discovery Channel's coverage of space shuttle launches.

Leasat F1's launch was cancelled just prior to lift-off and F2 became the first into orbit on August 30, 1984 aboard Discovery on shuttle mission STS-41-D. F1 was launched successfully on November 8, 1984 aboard STS-51-A followed on April 12, 1985 by Leasat F3 on STS-51-D. F3's launch was declared a failure when the satellite failed to start its manoeuvre to geostationary orbit once released from Discovery.

His first space mission took place on January 24, 1985, with the Kennedy Space Center launch of mission STS 51-C on Space Shuttle Discovery, the first space shuttle mission for the Department of Defense.

The first reported involvement of NASA and space rock came in 2009 when an off duty worker from the shuttle program synchronised footage of a Discovery launch with the Flowers Of Hell's ' Sympathy For Vengeance ' in an online video which became popular amongst staff at the Kennedy Space Center.

Space Shuttle Discovery races into the sky at the start of STS-31, whilst, for the first time since 1986, a second shuttle, Columbia, waits for her chance to launch.

To launch HST into an orbit that guaranteed longevity, Discovery soared to – the highest shuttle altitude ever at the time.

Discovery ’ s reentry from its higher than usual orbit required a deorbit burn of 4 min 58 s, the longest in shuttle history up to that time.

In May 2008, NASA and Disney announced that an original Thinkway Toys ' Buzz Lightyear action figure would fly aboard the space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-124.

The mission launched with Buzz aboard the NASA space shuttle Discovery ( STS-124 ) on May 31, 2008, to celebrate the opening of Toy Story Midway Mania at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure Park theme parks, with the ultimate destination of the International Space Station ( ISS ).

On April 5, 2010 Yamazaki entered space on the shuttle Discovery as part of mission STS-131.

On 19 April, after a week-long flight, Discovery conducted the fifth shuttle landing at KSC.

STS-33 was the 32nd shuttle mission overall, the ninth flight of Discovery, and the fifth shuttle mission in support of the DoD.

STS-70 was the 21st flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and the last of 7 shuttle missions to carry a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite ( TDRS ).

* Video – Aerial view of space shuttle Discovery launch from WB-57 aircraft YouTube

STS-96 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station ( ISS ) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and the first shuttle flight to dock with the International Space Station.

The book centers around terrorists taking control of the Space Shuttle Discovery during the first NASA – USSR space shuttle flight.

However, according to an article by former Space Shuttle program Director Wayne Hale on his official NASA blog, the space shuttle program, in preparation for the 2010 shutdown, has already terminated many specialty parts and materials contracts, many with small businesses whose only customer may have been the shuttle program and who closed shop and retired upon receiving their termination letters ; as a result, it would be difficult and expensive at this point to extend the shuttle program, and there would be a lag of at least a year ( without flights ) before exhausted exotic parts and supplies could be replaced.

In response to increased demand for jeans in the 1950s, American denim manufacturers replaced the old shuttle style looms with modern projectile looms.

Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.

Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.

The replacement bus service was far slower and less convenient than the train service it replaced, resulting in the shuttle bus being very unpopular.

Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.

The replacement bus service was far slower and less convenient than the train service it replaced, resulting in the shuttle bus being very unpopular.

Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.

The replacement bus service was far slower and less convenient than the train service it replaced, resulting in the shuttle bus being very unpopular.

The Boomerang roller coaster replaced the Corkscrew in 1990 with a lift shuttle train passing to and fro through a cobra roll and a vertical loop for six inversions each trip.

With the advent of importations from other countries and the use of shuttle stallions that stand at stud in Australia during the northern hemisphere ’ s winter, these suffixes were replaced by an abbreviated country suffix.

In 2002 the inter-terminal shuttle bus service was replaced by the suspended monorail called the SkyTrain connecting the terminal building with the InterCity train station.

During renovation, a temporary shuttle bus and the B48 bus replaced train service.

The evening shuttle was replaced by B service on September 30, 1990 and the late night one by the F later that year.

Service on the 63rd Street Line was replaced by a shuttle to the BMT Broadway Line.

The shuttle crew replaced the computer, part of a redundant set, with a backup one.

Along with that, he was also responsible for such long term issues as whether or not the Challenger would be replaced, the role the Shuttle would play in the future and the mixture of expendable spacecraft and the shuttle for upcoming missions.

Fifty years later came the Northrop Loom that would replenish the shuttle when it was empty and this replaced the Lancashire loom.

This replaced the airport's shuttle bus service which ran every twenty minutes, more frequently than the S-Bahn, but took longer to reach the airport and railway station.

After the Challenger disaster in 1986, the article's prescience made Easterbrook a frequent commentator on space issues, and after the Columbia disaster in 2003 he received attention for his belief that the shuttle program should be canceled and replaced with a " modern system that would make space flight cheaper and safer.

Since 1918, three shuttle tracks have served it ; the southbound express track was removed and replaced by a temporary wooden platform for access to the original northbound express track.

In 2001, when reconstruction of the Manhattan Bridge north tracks, the B service in Brooklyn was replaced by the new W train, which ran as a shuttle not only to 36th Street during nighttime hours, but also to Atlantic Avenue – Pacific Street on weekends.