Shuttle Discovery

USA Gets A View Of The Space Shuttle Landing Today

At 9:08 a.m. Eastern time, the shuttle landing path came to an end when the space shuttle landing today was completed. NASA officially announced the completion of the space shuttle landing today after the shuttle landing path took Discovery and the crew over much of the United States – from state parks in Montana to a payday loan store in Georgia. After two scrubbed landings yesterday, this space shuttle landing was not assured to be a go – in fact, for a while, it was under question.

Space shuttle landing today nearly scrubbed again

The Florida space center NASA crew was trying for the third time today to land the space shuttle. Yesterday, two attempts were canceled because of clouds and bad weather. Today, the space shuttle landing was delayed by a full Earth orbit because of rainstorms. After the Discovery space shuttle made 238 complete orbits of the planet, the shuttle touched down in Southern Florida.

The shuttle landing path across the USA

The shuttle landing path that Discovery took was very unusual for NASA. When the Columbia disaster in 2003 scattered debris across Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, and California, NASA started scheduling shuttle landing paths to avoid overland paths. However, the Discovery shuttle landing path allowed the crew to get several extra hours in space as well as a payday loans’ worth of hours of extra sleep before the space shuttle landing today. The Discovery space shuttle landing today gave an opportunity for many United States citizens to see and hear the space shuttle landing, thanks to the unusual shuttle landing path.

The remaining planned NASA shuttle missions

On May 14, the next-to-next-to-last space shuttle launch. The Atlantis space shuttle is the first of the last three flights of NASA space shuttles. The final Discovery space shuttle flight is currently scheduled for Sept. 16 of this year. After the current space shuttle fleet is retired, NASA has been instructed to “refocus” on longer-range and longer-term missions to space.

Watch the space shuttle landing today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R2dCWZ92ew

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