Space Shuttle Discovery’s Final Flight
Discovery’s age shows in the black stains and rubbed out paint along its frame. The workhorse of the shuttle fleet, Discovery has carried more crew members to orbit and flown more missions than any other shuttle. It has traveled 142 million miles. It launched the Hubble Space Telescope, three communications satellites and former Utah Senator Jake Garn.
(Photo by Getty Images)
Need a break from IowaIowaNewHampshireNewHampshireNewHampshire?
We did, too. So here’s a video of a “riot of life” deep in the ocean near Antarctica.
(More from the scientist who discovered it on the show tonight)
GIF of movements of the Caenorhabditis elegans worm, which was the first to produce 12 generations of offspring - in space -
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