Running a day late because of the clouds, Captain Alan G. Poindexter Navy took control at an altitude of about 50,000 feet above the space station, the shuttle through a sweeping turn to the right to take an airline runway 33
After a steep drop the shuttle, Capt. Poindexter Discovery lifted nose just before the threshold of the runway and the pilot, Col. James P. Dutton Jr., used by the Air Force, aircraft landing gear and tire-smoking down to Touch Down at 9:08 am Eastern time hours.
"Houston, Discovery, wheels stopped," captain radioed to Mission Control at Johnson Space Center Poindexter.
"Roger, wheels stopped, Discovery. Welcome back," said Frederick W. Sturckow, astronaut and retired Marine colonel, mission control "Dex, congratulations to you and your team. The extraordinary mission."
Is "Thanks for the words is a daunting task," said Captain Poindexter, adding: "We are very pleased that the International Space Station back shares."
Re-entry is the orbit because of concern over the rain and fog near the landing of the plane is delayed. But at dawn on the Space Center in Florida, improving conditions and Bryan C. Lunney, the flight director has acknowledged the input plane to go down to the Kennedy Space Center, preventing the transfer of Edwards Air Force Base in California.
To save fuel and avoid seasonal ice clouds high in the northern hemisphere, fall on the NASA shuttle in Florida to the southwest-northeast at tracks associated with the South Pacific Central America and the Caribbean. But for the Discovery flight, NASA managers agreed to run away from northwest to southeast, the crew was given additional time in orbit around its mission to the ISS for 15 days complete recovery.
Coast across Canada, on Vancouver, Discovery plunged into the American Northwest flies Helena, Mont, Casper, Wyoming, Colorado and north, as it came. Computers running from ship transport in central Kansas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, north of Little Rock, Arkansas, Mississippi, Central and Montgomery, Ala., from crossing to Florida at the Kennedy Space Center.
Captain Poindexter, Colonel Dutton, Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, flight engineer, Naoko Yamazaki, a Japanese astronaut, Stephanie D. Wilson, robot arm operator, and Richard A. Mastracchio and Clayton C. Anderson, two astronauts plan to return to Houston Wednesday morning after meeting with friends and family members.
Just a few miles from the runway, the engineers have been preparing Atlantis for the trip overnight flight from Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39a starting on May 14 last flight of the space station mission. Deployment delayed one day by the same meteorological conditions that Discovery is blocked again Monday morning.
On the landing of Discovery, there are only three flights before the fleet retired. The last two launches from the flight for Endeavour and Discovery are July 29 and September 16 are expected.
threatened by retiring the shuttle, NASA is a race against time so many things to keep as spare parts, accessories, and dental science as possible to the space station operational while the gap between the end of shuttle operations and the beginning of a new generation of U.S. missile supply. Discovery crew, including more than 17,000 pounds of science instruments and equipment.
An earlier version of this article the wrong information, the kind of turn the plane on approach to the runway. He is a right, not left.
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