Space Shuttle Discovery With Boeing 747 SCA

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Space Shuttle Discovery with Boeing 747 SCA (1:400 scale)
- Discovery is one of three operational Space Shuttles in NASA’s current fleet. As the third orbiter in service, it’s now the oldest Shuttle in the fleet. Its maiden flight occurred in August 1984. Among its achievements was the launching of the Hubble Space Telescope. After landing at the Kennedy Space Centre on the 9th March 2011 on it"s 39th & final mission, it will be retired to a museum. To transport its fleet of spacecraft, NASA employs two extensively modified Boeing 747s. For example, the specially modified aircraft can be used if a Shuttle needs to be transported from a landing site to the Kennedy Space Center launch complex, or for any other journey that is too far for ground transport.