Space Shuttle Discovery has landed safely! This is a positive sign for the US space program and hopefully all future missions will be as successful.

The NASA news mission statement reports the landing details:

Monday, August 9, 2005 – 8:30 a.m. CDTMission Control Center, Houston, Texas 08.09.05
STATUS REPORT: STS-114-28 STS-114 MCC Status Report #28 Discovery glided to a pre-dawn landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California this morning concluding a journey of 5.8 million miles, touching down at 7:11 a.m. CDT.

The landing marked the sixth night landing at Edwards Air Force Base, and the 50th time overall that a Shuttle concluded its mission in the California desert.

Commander Eileen Collins and Pilot Jim Kelly, assisted by Mission Specialist Steve Robinson, began Discovery’s return to earth by firing the spacecraft's orbital maneuvering system engines to slow its speed and begin its descent. Discovery's ground track took it from the firing of the 2 minute, 42-second deorbit burn at 6:06 a.m. over the western Indian Ocean, traveling in a loop around Australia, then northeast across the Pacific, across the California coast north of Los Angeles and then to Edwards.

http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/main/index.html

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