Discovery home safe
2006-07-17 15:26
Cape Canaveral - The US space
shuttle Discovery landed safely at the Kennedy Space Centre in
Florida on Monday, ending a 13-day mission that may signal
Nasa's full recovery from the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Discovery and its six-member crew made a fiery re-entry
into the Earth's atmosphere before gliding to a smooth landing
at 09:14 (13:14 GMT).
The landing brought a successful end to the US space
agency's second shuttle mission since Columbia - Discovery's
sister ship - broke apart over Texas just 16 minutes from
landing on February 1 2003.
- Reuters