Discovery ready to return to Earth

After circling the Earth for 13 days, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery powered up their spacecraft early today and awaited word from Mission Control to fire their braking rockets and head for home.

Discovery ready to return to Earth

After circling the Earth for 13 days, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery powered up their spacecraft early today and awaited word from Mission Control to fire their braking rockets and head for home.

Discovery, the first shuttle to return to orbit since Columbia disintegrated while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere two-and-a-half years ago, was set to land at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center this morning.

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