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Safe Landing For Space Shuttle Discovery

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the made-it-back-done dept.

dylanduck writes "Discovery is back safe and sound, despite minor problems with a leaky power unit and a last minute change of approach direction to the runway. The mission tested some post-Columbia safety changes, and also set up the space station for future construction. But in some ways, the tough job starts now - NASA has just 40 days or so to get Atlantis up."

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  1. Atlantis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It won't be easy, the wraith will find it soon and the power cells can only last so long.

  2. Fun Fact! by saboola · · Score: 5, Funny

    Upon entering Kennedy Space Center, Homeland Security made the crew take off their shoes, belts, and put laptops into plastic bins before entering.

    1. Re:Fun Fact! by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 3, Funny

      May be apocryphal, but more than one of my ROTC buddies from college have stories about needing to go to a high-level government or military installation in Iraq, stopping at the security gate to make sure they don't have a bomb, then being handed back their M-16 so they can continue on their way.

  3. Re:Good news indeed by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somehow, I don't think I thought my cunning plan all the way through.

  4. Re:Journaists and public perception by helioquake · · Score: 3, Funny

    And most importantly... no Miles O'Brien on CSPAN!