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Landing of the STS-114 orbiter Discovery
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Landing of the STS-114 orbiter Discovery

NASA / JSC · 2005-08-09 · photograph (digital archive)

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STS114-S-042 (9 August 2005) --- The Space Shuttle Discovery, with its crew of seven astronauts onboard, glides to a pre-dawn landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Touchdown occurred at 5:11 a.m. (PDT) August 9, 2005. Astronauts Eileen M. Collins and James M. Kelly, STS-114 commander and pilot, respectively, guided the ship as it made its 17,000 mph descent from space into the morning darkness.

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Credit lineLanding of the STS-114 orbiter Discovery. NASA/JSC, 2005-08-09. Public domain. ID: STS114-S-042.
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