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06-14-2008, 11:41 AM
Space shuttle Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center shuttle landing facility's runway 15, completing a 14-day, 5,735,643 mile mission to space and back.
Discovery's main landing gear touched down at 11:15:19 a.m. EDT. Nose gear touched down at 11:15:30 a.m. Discovery's wheels came to a stop at 11:16:19 a.m.
This was the fifth space shuttle mission in a row to land at Kennedy, the 69th to do so in history. Fifty-one missions have landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and one mission, STS-3, landed at White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico.
STS-124 was the 123rd space shuttle flight, the 35th flight for shuttle Discovery and the 26th flight of a shuttle to the International Space Station.
A post-landing news conference is scheduled for about two hours after landing. Participants will be:
- Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for Space Operations
- Kaoru Mamiya, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Vice President
- Mike Leinbach, NASA Space Shuttle Launch Director
The STS-124 crew is expected to hold a news conference on NASA Television at 4:15 p.m.
Discovery's main landing gear touched down at 11:15:19 a.m. EDT. Nose gear touched down at 11:15:30 a.m. Discovery's wheels came to a stop at 11:16:19 a.m.
This was the fifth space shuttle mission in a row to land at Kennedy, the 69th to do so in history. Fifty-one missions have landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and one mission, STS-3, landed at White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico.
STS-124 was the 123rd space shuttle flight, the 35th flight for shuttle Discovery and the 26th flight of a shuttle to the International Space Station.
A post-landing news conference is scheduled for about two hours after landing. Participants will be:
- Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for Space Operations
- Kaoru Mamiya, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Vice President
- Mike Leinbach, NASA Space Shuttle Launch Director
The STS-124 crew is expected to hold a news conference on NASA Television at 4:15 p.m.