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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KrAzY_iN_LuV" data-source="post: 7372301" data-attributes="member: 210849">             CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP)  -- Shuttle Discovery  and its astronauts returned safely to Earth  on Tuesday after making a rare flyover of America'sInternational Space Station. The touchdown was  delayed by rain and fog that dissipated as the sun rose, allowing Mission  Control to take advantage of the morning's second landing  opportunity. NASA had  promised a spectacular show, weather permitting, for early risers in Helena,  Mont., and all the way along Discovery's  flight path through the Midwest and Southeast. With the space  shuttle program winding down, there weren't expected to be any more  continental flyovers. This was, in fact, Discovery's next-to-last flight. Only one more  mission remains for NASA's oldest  surviving shuttle. As soon as it's removed from the runway, it will be  prepped for the final shuttle flight, scheduled for September.    <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13101.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Astronauts Rick Mastracchio (right) and Clayton  Anderson are seen working in Discovery's aft payload bay during the mission's  third and final session of extravehicular activity Tuesday, April 13, as  construction and maintenance continue on the International Space  Station.   NASA                                        <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13102.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  The space  shuttle Discovery touches down on Kennedy Space Center's Runway 33 Tuesday, April 20,  in Cape  Canaveral, Fla.  AP /  Bruce Weaver      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13103.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's  horizon, the Japanese Kibo complex of the International Space Station  is featured in this image photographed by an STS-131 crew member while space  shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station Wednesday April  7.  NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13104.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  The aft section of the docked space  shuttle Discovery is photographed by an STS-131 crew member on the  International Space Station  Thursday April 8. The Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba are seen 215 miles  below. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13105.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    The Earth's  horizon provides a background to the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2 as it grapples the  Leonardo Multi-purpose Logistics Module from the payload bay of the  docked space  shuttle Discovery for relocation to a port on the Harmony node of  the International SpaceNASA Station  Wednesday April 7.       <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13106.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  During the second spacewalk of the  STS-131 mission, NASA astronauts  Rick  Mastracchio and Clayton  Anderson (out of frame) unhooked and removed the depleted ammonia  tank and installed a 1,700-pound replacement on the station's Starboard 1  truss. This was the second of three spacewalks in the coolant tank  replacement process.  NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13107.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Astronauts Rick Mastracchio (left) and Clayton  Anderson participate in the mission's second session of  extravehicular activity Saturday, April 10, as construction and  maintenance continue on the International Space  Station. During the seven-hour, 26-minute spacewalk, Mastracchio and  Anderson unhooked and removed the depleted ammonia tank and installed a  1,700-pound ammonia tank on the station, completing the second of a  three-spacewalk coolant tank replacement process. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13108.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Astronauts Rick Mastracchio (left) and Clayton  Anderson participating in the mission's second session of  extravehicular activity as construction and maintenance continue on the  International Space Station  Sunday April 11. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13109.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Astronaut Clayton Anderson participates in the mission's third  and final session of extravehicular activity Tuesday, April 13, as  construction and maintenance continues on the International Space Station.  The shuttle's aft cargo bay can be seen reflected in his visor as he  stows the ammonia tank assembly. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13110.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, participates in the mission's first  session of extravehicular activity Friday, April 9, as construction and  maintenance continue on the International Space  Station. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13111.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Astronaut Clayton Anderson, participates in the mission's first  session of extravehicular activity Friday, April 9, as construction and  maintenance continue on the International Space  Station.  NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13112.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, participates in the mission's first  session of extravehicular activity Friday April 9, as construction and  maintenance continue on the International Space  Station. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13113.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Dwarfed by space  shuttle Discovery, NASA astronauts  Rick  Mastracchio (right) and Clayton  Anderson are seen working in Discovery's aft payload bay during the mission's  third and final session of extravehicular activity Tuesday, April 13, as  construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station.  NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13114.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Dwarfed by components of the  International Space Station,  NASA astronaut Rick  Mastracchio (bottom center), is seen working near the Quest airlock  during the mission's third and final session of extravehicular activity  Tuesday, April 13, as construction and maintenance continue on the  orbital complex. During the six-hour, 24-minute spacewalk, Mastracchio  and astronaut Clayton  Anderson (out of frame), mission specialist, hooked up fluid lines  of the new 1,700-pound tank, retrieved some micrometeoroid shields from  the Quest airlock's exterior, relocated a portable foot restraint and  prepared cables on the Zenith 1 truss for a spare Space to Ground Ku-Band antenna, two chores required  before space shuttle  Atlantis' STS-132/ ULF-4 mission in May. Also featured in the image are a  docked Russian Soyuz spacecraft and space  shuttle Discovery. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13115.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  The aft section of the docked space  shuttle Discovery and the station's robotic Canadarm2  photographed  by a shuttle crew member on the International Space Station Saturday, April 10. The Red Sea, Sinai  Peninsula (center) and Nile River  (left) are seen approximately 215 miles below. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13116.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  During the second of three spacewalks  STS-131 astronauts Rick  Mastracchio (left) and Clayton  Anderson continued maintenance activities outside the International  Space Station  by installing a 1,700-pound ammonia tank on the station's Starboard 1  truss. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13117.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  During the STS-131 mission's first  spacewalk, astronauts Rick  Mastracchio and Clayton  Anderson (out of frame) moved a new 1,700-pound ammonia tank from space  shuttle Discovery's cargo bay to a temporary parking place on the  station, retrieved an experiment from the Japanese Kibo Laboratory  exposed facility and replaced a Rate Gyro Assembly on one of the truss segments. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13118.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    With 13 astronauts and cosmonauts  onboard the International Space Station  at one time, activities around the galley in the Zvezda module get  rather busy at meal time as shown in this photo taken Friday, April 9.  Over half the 13 are seen in this aggregation. NASA astronaut James P. Dutton Jr., prepares part of his meal at  left. Also pictured, from the left, are Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov  and Alexander  Kornienko, NASA astronaut Clayton  Anderson, JAXA astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, NASA  astronaut Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and JAXA astronaut Soichi  Noguchi. NASA      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13119.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  A time-elapsed photo made in Cape  Canaveral, Fla., captures space  shuttle Discovery's path to orbit during liftoff from Launch Pad  39A at NASA'sKennedy  Space Center in Florida was  at 6:21 a.m. EDT April 5, on the STS-131 mission.  AP / Ben Cooper       <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13120.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    Space  Shuttle Discovery lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Monday  April 5. Discovery's  seven member crew are on a mission to deliver science racks, the last  of the crew quarters and supplies to the International Space Station. AP / John Raoux      <img src="http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/shuttle131_sm/shuttle13121.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  A specialized transporter brought the  payload canister to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for the STS-131  mission. The canister, which is the same dimensions as the shuttle's  cargo bay, held the Leonardo supply module during the move from  processing to the shuttle. Leonardo will be packed inside space  shuttle Discovery for launch. In this image, the payload canister  holding the Leonardo supply module is hoisted to the clean room at  Launch pad 39A. NASA </blockquote>

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