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Description: The Space Shuttle Discovery, with its crew of seven astronauts onboard, glides to a pre-dawn landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Touchdown occurred at 5:11 a.m. (PDT) August 9, 2005. Astronauts Eileen M. Collins and James M. Kelly, STS-114 commander and pilot, respectively, guided the ship as it made its 17,000 mph descent from space into the morning darkness.
Title: STS-114 Landing
Credit: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-114/html/sts114-s-046.html [1]
Author: NASA
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