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Space Shuttle Projects
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The sun rises on the Space Shuttle Discovery as it rests on the runway at Edward’s Air Force Base in California after a safe landing at 5:11 am (PDT) on August 9, 2005. The STS-114 landing concluded a historic 14 day return to flight mission to the International Space Station (ISS) after nearly a two and one half year delay in flight after the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy in February 2003.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSpace Shuttle Projects. NASA/MSFC, 2005-08-08. Public domain. ID: 0501015.
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