Space shuttle ends successful mission in Florida

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U.S. Space shuttle Discovery landed smoothly in Florida on Monday at the end of a 13-day mission meant to show the fleet is fit to fly safely, three years after the fatal Columbia accident.

Double sonic booms thundered over central Florida as the shuttle glided through partly cloudy skies heading toward a three-mile-long runway at the Kennedy Space Center.

Commander Steve Lindsey gently steered the shuttle through a series of turns to slow the craft down before the winged spacecraft landed at 9:14 a.m. (1314 GMT).

"Welcome back Discovery. Congratulations on a great mission," said astronaut Steve Frick from NASA's Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston....(more@link)

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