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Space shuttle Discovery docks with ISS for
final time
Sunday February 27, 2011 09:58:30 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow:
"What took you guys so long?" the commander of the International
Space Station (ISS) asked the crew of US space shuttle Discovery,
after it successfully docked at the ISS for its 13th and final
mission.
Discovery Commander Steve Lindsey performed the manoeuvre at 2.14
p.m., while the two spacecraft were orbiting above Australia, the
NASA said Saturday.
After this mission, the shuttle will be retired and placed in a
museum.
Discovery has flown 38 missions to date - more than any other
shuttle - and made more than 5,600 trips around the earth.
The shuttle should have arrived in November last year, but was
grounded by fuel tank cracks. It finally blasted off Feb 24.
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