Mission Milestones
The mission marked:
- 159th NASA manned space flight
- 128th shuttle mission since STS-1
- 37th flight of Discovery
- 30th shuttle mission to the ISS
- 103rd post-Challenger mission
- 15th post-Columbia mission
- 32nd shuttle night launch
- NASA's first space shuttle launch to take place during two calendar days
- 25th anniversary of Discovery's first flight, STS-41-D (30 August 1984)
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