Space Shuttle discovery's last flight on February 24, 2011 was it's 39th flight into space.
The space shuttle was built to be able to fly 100 times each before being retired. The space shuttle with the most flights is Discovery with 36
There were nine space shuttle flights in 1987.
Space shuttles were designed for multiple missions, but they required extensive refurbishment between flights. The average number of flights for a single shuttle was around 25-30 missions. Each shuttle was retired after completing its designated mission count.
NASA astronaut John Glenn had two space flights. On February 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission becoming the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth circling the earth three times. In October 1998, Senator Glenn returned to space at the age of 77 aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
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As of the end of February 2010, NASA has flown 130 space shuttle flights, two of them ending in catastrophe.
A total of 135 space shuttle flights were launched between 1981 and 2011 as part of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
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There have been a total of 128 space shuttle flights so far.This does not include those flown by Enterprise as these were test flights
They planned that each shuttle could make 100 flights.
As of 2021, there have been more than 240 crewed flights to the International Space Station conducted by different space agencies around the world, including NASA, Roscosmos, and others. These flights have carried astronauts and cosmonauts to the space station for research, maintenance, and other activities.
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