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Discovery performed both research and international space station (iss) assembly missions, and also carried the hubble space telescope into orbit among other satellites Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by endeavour and then atlantis. The smithsonian institution says nasa relinquished full ownership of space shuttle discovery, but congress wants to force the vehicle's relocation. Discovery was the third space shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight in 2011 as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter. Discovery was ready to go back into the weightless expanse—the first space shuttle mission since the challenger disaster nearly three years earlier Would there be a repeat of that terrible. In the course of its 39 missions spanning more than 26 years, discovery flew virtually every type of mission envisioned for the space shuttle, including government and commercial satellite deployments and retrievals, launching and servicing scientific observatories such as the hubble space telescope, resupplying the russian mir space station. In 39 voyages to space, discovery crews launched the hubble space telescope, sent the ulysses spacecraft to study the sun and helped build the international space station