Discovery heading home by Barbora Kasparova

The space shuttle Discovery crew will be saying home, sweet home again on Wednesday, after their 15 days long mission will come to and end. According to the NASA official web site the Discovery left the ISS at 5:32 on Monday. (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html) This landing is the first since the 2003 Columbia disaster that will follow a coast to coast flight over the USA. The current Discovery mission STS & 120 (which means it is the 120th shuttle flight) services the International Space Station & ISS, the cooperation project of Russian, Japanese, Canadian and European space agencies. Discovery along with Atlantis and Endeavour is one of the last three U.S. orbiters in use. This stay of Discovery on the ISS included installment of Harmony Node 2 module, the utility hub of the ISS, which was carried by Discovery, and 4 space walks. The returning crew includes Clayton Anderson, who is heading home after the 5-month long stay on the space station, pilot George Zamka and a woman shuttle commander Pamela A. Melroy. According to the weather forecast, the prepared landing at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida should be accompanied by good weather, 71° F and wind 17mph, although Melroy commented that "...the forecasters were keeping an eye on the wind".

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071105/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle;_ylt=AqFQzGpcoC91Sc6.tSZM_r.s0NUE

by Barbora Kasparova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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