#landing

[lonestarflight]

"Space shuttle Discovery lands on Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:08 a.m. (EDT) on April 20, 2010, completing the 15-day STS-131 mission to the International Space Station. Main gear touchdown was at 9:08:35 a.m. followed by nose gear touchdown at 9:08:47 a.m. and wheels stop at 9:09:33 a.m. Aboard are NASA astronauts Alan Poindexter, commander; James P. Dutton Jr., pilot; Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Rick Mastracchio, Stephanie Wilson, Clayton Anderson and Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, all mission specialists. The seven-member STS-131 crew carried the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, filled with supplies, a new crew sleeping quarters and science racks that were transferred to the station's laboratories. The crew also switched out a gyroscope on the station's truss, installed a spare ammonia storage tank and retrieved a Japanese experiment from the station's exterior. STS-131 is the 33rd shuttle mission to the station and the 131st shuttle mission overall."

Date: April 20, 2010

NASA ID: STS131-S-095

[pixel8or]

[viejospellejos]

Uuuuuufff

[gentlemensarts]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Reflected ~

[spaceexp]

After a journey of nearly 3.9 billion miles, the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule is back on Earth on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023.

Teams perform the initial safety assessment—the first persons to come into contact with this hardware since it was on the other side of the solar system.

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[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[keepingitneutral]

Landing House, Joshua Tree National Park, California, United States,

Industry of All Nations

[gentlemensarts]

[ilikeloons]

Royal Terns. Colonial Beach November 2024.