Discovery Lands in Florida

[RantinRavin]

Source: NASA

Space shuttle Discovery descended to a smooth landing at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., concluding a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station. With Commander Pam Melroy and Pilot George Zamka at the controls, Discovery landed at 1:01 p.m. EST.

During its stay at the station, which began Oct. 25, the STS-120 crew continued the on-orbit construction of the station with the installation of the Harmony Node 2 module and the relocation of the P6 truss.

The crew installed Harmony Oct. 26 and did four spacewalks at the station. During the third spacewalk, the crew installed the P6 truss and solar array pair in its permanent location outboard of the port truss. The fourth spacewalk was changed during the mission so that the crew could repair a torn solar array on the P6 truss. Following the successful repair work, the crew was able to fully deploy the solar array.



Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

[1monster]

1. The sonic boom just sounded like someone threw a wrecking ball against the

side of my house. The house shook like someone threw a wrecking ball against the side of my house...

Those booms are scary if you don't know they're coming.