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Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-124) Landing
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-124) Landing
Space Shuttle Discovery: STS-124 landing
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-124) Lands
Space Shuttle Discovery: STS-124 landing
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-124) Lands
Space Shuttle Discovery: STS-124 landing
Space Shuttle Discovery: STS-124 landing
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-124) Landing
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-124) Landing
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The space shuttle Discovery touches down at 11:15 a.m. EDT, Saturday, June 14, 2008, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the 13-day mission, Discovery and the crew of STS-124 delivered new components of the Japanese Experiment Module, or Kibo, to the International Space Station and the Canadian-built Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.
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