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Discovery’s Last… and First…Flight

Space shuttle Discovery lifted-off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for its 39th and final mission.
Space shuttle Discovery lifted-off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for its 39th and final mission. NASA

With space shuttle Discovery having just wrapped up its career, we thought you might like this account of its first flight back in 1984, as narrated by the STS-41D crew.

See here for more of these shuttle home videos.

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Tony Reichhardt is a senior editor at Air & Space.