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Discovery comes back home (2): the Shuttle landed without problems at Cape Canaveral

Washington, USA - Joy explosion at NASA

The operations for the landing of Discovery ended successfully few minutes ago. The Shuttle of NASA landed at Cape Canaveral without problems, despite the area was involved in a meteo perturbance (see for details AVIONEWS). It was enthusiastic the comment of Steven Lindsley, Mission Control, who complimented with the astronauts and also with the Shuttle, for a mission defined historic. Effectively...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 145016
Rome, Italy, 07/17/2006 18:28
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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