Sunday, February 27, 2011

Discovery Docks With Station for Final Time

At 2:14 p.m. EST Saturday, STS-133 Commander Steve Lindsey backed space shuttle Discovery into pressurized mating adapter #2 on the International Space Station?s Harmony node. The two spacecraft were flying about 220 miles above western Australia at the time they docked.

Discovery was the first space shuttle to dock to a space station when it docked to Russia?s Mir station on mission STS-91 on June 4, 1998. Discovery also was the first shuttle to dock to the International Space Station o [...]





Full story at http://spacefellowship.com/news/art25031/discovery-docks-with-station-for-final-time.html

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