Discovery: Coming to Earth

Last Flight "Discovery": soon return to Earth ...

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"Discovery" with an open cargo bay flies over the south-west coast of Morocco.





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Shuttle pilot Eric Bow (left), commander Steve Lindsey and Rocket scientist Alvin Drew (right) in the instrument panel in the cockpit "Discovery".



It looks like the International Space Station on board undocked before the journey back to Earth space shuttle "Discovery". Today, the shuttle will return from his latest, the 39th flight into space.



The crews of the International Space Station and space shuttle "Discovery" (left to right) in red ("Discovery"), Nicole Scott, Alvin Drew, Eric Bowe, Steve Lindsay, Michael Barratt, Steve Bowen; in dark blue (ISS) Paolo Nespoli (Italy, the European Space Agency), Oleg Skripochka, Dmitry Kondratyev, Alexander Kaleri (all - Russia, Roscosmos), Scott Kelly, Cady Coleman (all US NASA)



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