Rendezvous and approach of Space Shuttle Discovery to the Mir Russian Space Station on its final docking mission STS-91 with the Spacehab module and Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) payload visible in the payload bay. (Photo courtesy of NASA)
Rendezvous and approach of Space Shuttle Discovery to the Mir Russian Space Station on its final docking mission STS-91 with the Spacehab module and Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) payload visible in the payload bay. Discovery, the longest-serving and most flown of all the shuttles, will be welcomed into the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum collection on April 19, 2012 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, where it will go on permanent display.
