At 9:08 a.m. Eastern time, the shuttle landing path came to an end when the space shuttle landing today was completed. NASA officially announced the completion of the space shuttle landing today following the shuttle landing path took Discovery and the crew over much of the United States – from state parks in Montana to a pay day loan store in Georgia. There were two scrubbed landings yesterday, and this space shuttle landing today may have ended up in California if the weather in Florida did not clear up as it did.
The space shuttle landing today was almost scrubbed again
Today was the 3rd attempt to land the Discovery space shuttle in Florida. Yesterday, two attempts were canceled because of clouds and bad weather. The space shuttle landing today had to be delayed by an Earth orbit due to nearby rain showers. After 238 complete orbits around the earth, Discovery touched down.
The shuttle landing path across the USA
The space shuttle landing path planned for Discovery was a very unusual path for NASA flights. When the Columbia disaster in 2003 scattered debris across Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, and California, NASA started scheduling shuttle landing paths to keep away from overland paths. The landing path of the Discovery shuttle allowed the crew a cash advanceworth of extra time in space and additional sleep before the space shuttle landing today, which took extreme focus. This unusual shuttle landing path also allowed individuals in a large swath of the United States to see and hear the Discovery space shuttle landing today.
The remaining prepared NASA shuttle missions
On May 14, the next-to-next-to-last space shuttle launch. The current NASA space program has only three remaining spaceflights, which kick off with the Atlantis launch in May. On September 16, Discovery will make the final flight of its space career. After the current space shuttle fleet is retired, NASA has been instructed to “refocus” on longer-range and longer-term missions to space.
See coverage of the space shuttle landing today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R2dCWZ92ew
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