US & NASA - Discovery starts return to Earth

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Monday, 17 July 2006,

12:41 GMT 13:41 UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discovery

starts return to Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A heat shield

scan has shown there is no damage to the space shuttle

 

 

 

Astronauts

on board the Discovery space shuttle have begun their journey

back to Earth at the end of a 13-day mission to the International Space

Station.

The orbiter and its six-strong crew started its hour-long

descent after firing up the braking rockets.

Discovery was cleared for re-entry over the weekend when inspections

revealed no signs of damage to the craft.

The shuttle is scheduled to touch down at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1314 GMT.

Crew members were woken early on Monday to begin preparations

for re-entry, often judged the most risky phase of a shuttle mission

Nasa officials have suggested that the apparent success of

Discovery's mission has drawn a line under continued doubts over

the safety of the shuttle programme.

Discovery's flight is only the

second shuttle mission since the Columbia broke up on re-entry

in 2003 killing everyone on board and grounding the rest of the shuttle

fleet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5186964.stm

 

US dasha: Ve/Sa/Mo/Ve/Ve

 

 

 

NASA dasha: Ju/Ve/Su/Ve/Me

 

 

 

All operational planets are afflicted at 13:14 GMT in

both charts, which may indicate some problems on coming back at the scheduled

time.

 

Let us hope everything will be OK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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