Space Shuttle Returns to Earth
Space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth, bringing the first crew of the international space station back from a 4 1/2-month mission spent building and fixing the orbiting outpost.
Discovery landed at Cape Canaveral at 2:31 a.m. EST, almost two weeks after blasting off to retrieve the three space station pioneers.
The space station voyagers circled Earth about 2,200 times during their trailblazing expedition and covered 58 million miles. Their former orbital home was flying over the north Atlantic near Nova Scotia when Discovery touched down.
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