FREE: THE SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY Commemorative Coin

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This auction is for a Commemorative Coin minted in the Marshall Islands September 29, 1988 as a tribute to The Space Shuttle Discovery and the US Space Program. This $5 coin is in mint condition, still sealed in its protective wrap and enclosed in a sleeve that has pictures and details of the Space Shuttle and the astronauts.

The Space Shuttle Discovery was operational from its maiden flight on August 30, 1984 until its final landing on March 9, 2011. The orbiter was officially retired April 12, 2012.
Here are some fun facts about the Space Shuttle Discovery collected from an article written by Mike Wall, senior writer at Space.com

10. World's Most-Flown Space Shuttle-39 space missions total
9. Discovery Spent Entire Year in Orbit (cumulative flight days)
8. Discovery Is Really Dirty-The discolorations and streaks are caused from going from orbit back into our earths atmosphere.
7. Discovery Launched the Hubble Space Telescope
6. Discovery Returned NASA From Shuttle Tragedies twice. Once after the Jan. 1986 explosion of Challenger and again after the Feburary 2003 destruction of Columbia as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere.
5. Discovery Launched John Glenn Back Into Orbit
4. Discovery Took Four Years to Build
3. Launched 1st Female Shuttle Pilot & Commander -NASA astronaut Eileen Collins piloted the shuttle's STS-63 mission in 1995
2. Launched 1st Russian to Ride a U.S. Spaceship- Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev flew aboard the orbiter on its STS-60 mission in 1994
1. Discovery's Name Has Long Exploration Legacy- Discovery takes its name from two ships that loom large in the history of exploration. One was sailed by Henry Hudson in 1610-11 to search for a northwest passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the other was helmed by James Cook on an 18th-century voyage during which he discovered the Hawaiian Islands.
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