As of this writing, NASA has only three (3) working SPACESHIPS (as opposed to total number of SPACECRAFT owned or operating), the space shuttle orbiter vehicles, OV-103 Discovery, OV-104 Atlantis and OV-105 Endeavor.
However, NASA has previously announced its plan to "mothball" the costly space shuttle fleet following the STS-133 shuttle mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The shuttle Discovery is slated to blast off in September 2010 on the eight-day trek that - if NASA's current plan holds - will mark the end of the shuttle era after 29 years of spaceflight.
NASA's lower-cost replacement for the space shuttle fleet has been dubbed Project Constellation.
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