nail-biting
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After more than 200 orbits around the world, covering more than 9 million kilometres, the space shuttle Discovery landed safely on the west coast of the United States in a nail-biting finish to its anxiety-plagued 14-day mission.
The landing brought a successful end to NASA's troubled return to human space flight, 2½ years after the destruction of sister ship Columbia.
Discovery made its fiery re-entry into the atmosphere and swooped across the Pacific Ocean before gliding to a smooth touchdown at 8.11:22am (10.11:22pm Melbourne time last night) at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert, returning to Earth with more than 3.1 tonnes of equipment and trash from the International Space Station.
[ Cheers and relief at Discovery's safe return ]
After more than 200 orbits around the world, covering more than 9 million kilometres, the space shuttle Discovery landed safely on the west coast of the United States in a nail-biting finish to its anxiety-plagued 14-day mission.
The landing brought a successful end to NASA's troubled return to human space flight, 2½ years after the destruction of sister ship Columbia.
Discovery made its fiery re-entry into the atmosphere and swooped across the Pacific Ocean before gliding to a smooth touchdown at 8.11:22am (10.11:22pm Melbourne time last night) at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert, returning to Earth with more than 3.1 tonnes of equipment and trash from the International Space Station.
[ Cheers and relief at Discovery's safe return ]
posted by Dennis @ Wednesday, August 10, 2005
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