Discovery Orbiter Vehicle Looks Clean, Few Dings Seen In an intricate orbital dance, Space Shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station and made a landing at Kennedy Space Center as beautiful and point-perfect as its liftoff a lucky 13 days earlier atop a pink plume of exhaust vapor. That silky Saturday afternoon landing was delayed slightly to await better Florida weather. The landing came just hours after a Russian Soyuz space vehicle had docked at the space station to…
Triple Tango: Space Shuttle Discovery Lands, Space Shuttle Atlantis Goes To Pad, Soyuz Docks With Space Station To Deliver Fresh Crew
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