STS-133 was the 39th and final flight for Space Shuttle Discovery, which spent 365 days in space, orbited Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles. On mission STS-31, April 24, 1990, Discovery put the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. The world and our perception of the Universe changed just a few days later. Discovery flew out of our planet more times than any other spacecraft in history. During all these missions, she has been a formidable machine.
Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... LOVE actually is all around. ~Prime Minister