Shuttle lands in Florida
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 2:42 PM ET (1842 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery landed in Florida Tuesday morning after weather conditions improved enough to permit a landing there. Discovery touched down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center at 9:08 am EDT (1308 GMT) Tuesday on the second of two landing attempts there after clouds forced controllers to wave off the first landing attempt an hour and a half earlier. NASA was prepared to land the shuttle at Edwards Air Force Base in California instead, as weather prevented a shuttle landing at KSC on Monday. The landing brought to an end the 15-day STS-131 mission, where astronauts delivered several tons of cargo to the International Space Station and also performed three spacewalks to perform maintenance work. Three shuttle missions remain on the manifest, with the next, STS-132, scheduled for launch on May 14.
The space shuttle Discovery landed in Florida Tuesday morning after weather conditions improved enough to permit a landing there. Discovery touched down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center at 9:08 am EDT (1308 GMT) Tuesday on the second of two landing attempts there after clouds forced controllers to wave off the first landing attempt an hour and a half earlier. NASA was prepared to land the shuttle at Edwards Air Force Base in California instead, as weather prevented a shuttle landing at KSC on Monday. The landing brought to an end the 15-day STS-131 mission, where astronauts delivered several tons of cargo to the International Space Station and also performed three spacewalks to perform maintenance work. Three shuttle missions remain on the manifest, with the next, STS-132, scheduled for launch on May 14.
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