Space shuttle Discovery ends final flight

The shuttle Discovery, which finished its 39th and final flight, carried the Italian-built Permanent Multipurpose Module, Express Logistics Carrier 4 and Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot in space, to the international space station.

 
 

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March 9, 2011

Space shuttle Discovery Commander Steve Lindsey, second from right, and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, lead the crew after the shuttle landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Other crew members, from left: mission specialist Steve Bowen, pilot Eric Boe, Alvin Drew and Michael Barratt.


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