Shuttle Discovery lands safely after opening door to Station era
The Space Shuttle Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center early Saturday after paving the way for the Space Station era with a less-than- picture-perfect Mir rendezvous that exercised the operating techniques NASA and the Russian Space Agency have developed. A leaking aft thruster on Discovery...
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