Discovery

The ship in which Captain Scott sailed to the Antarctic and back in 1900-04, commanding the National Antarctic Expedition. Officially known as the Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery, it became a museum ship and resided at St Katharine's Dock, London, 1980-86, and at Dundee, Scotland, from 1986.

Discovery

View of the science payload ATLAS-2 (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science 2) in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery (STS-56) in 1993. ATLAS-2 formed part of NASA's ‘Mission to Planet Earth’ and was designed to study the Earth's atmosphere and record ozone concentrations.

Within the Kennedy Space Center's gigantic Vehicle Assembly Building, space shuttle Discovery is mated with the external fuel tank and solid rocket booster assembly already mounted on the mobile launcher platform.

US astronaut Ellen Ochoa floats through the tube connecting the space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station. Shuttle mission STS-96 took supplies and equipment to the space station, some of which can be seen in the background.

US astronaut Tamara Jernigan anchored to a mobile foot restraint connected to Discovery's Canadarm. Discovery is docked with the International Space Station. In the background is the Aegean Sea in which parts of Greece, Turkey, and the Dardanelles are visible some 171 nautical miles below.

Third of the US space shuttles. It made its first flight on 30 August 1984 with a crew of six. Discovery took the second resident crew to the International Space Station in 2001. It was selected to make the first flight following the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster. The flight was made in July 2005 to the International Space Station.

In 1994 Sergei Krikalev of Russia became the first cosmonaut in a space shuttle on board Discovery, and John Glenn flew in it in 1998, becoming the oldest man in space.