STS-120 Landing

Space shuttle Discovery descended to a smooth landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, concluding a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station. With Commander Pam Melroy and Pilot George Zamka at the controls, Discovery landed at 1:01:17 p.m. EST on 7th November 2007. The mission lasted 15 days, 2 hours, 24 minutes and 2 seconds.

During its stay at the station, which began on 25th October, the STS-120 crew continued the on-orbit construction of the station with the installation of the Harmony Node 2 module and the relocation of the P6 truss.

The crew installed Harmony on 26th October and did four spacewalks at the station. During the third spacewalk, the crew installed the P6 truss and solar array pair in its permanent location outboard of the port truss. The fourth spacewalk was changed during the mission so that the crew could repair a torn solar array on the P6 truss. Following the successful repair work, the crew was able to fully deploy the solar array.

Discovery also delivered a new station crew member, Flight Engineer Daniel Tani.

STS-120 is the 120th shuttle mission and 23rd mission to visit the space station. The next mission, STS-122, is slated to launch in December.

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[JaalaJ]

Little birdy.

[BrunoTheQuestionable]

Tweet tweet.

[JaalaJ]

lol I wonder what sound the pterradactyls made.

[BrunoTheQuestionable]

Hear for yourself in

youtube DOT com/watch?v=tSnMrN4r1kE

[SkepticalZombie]

I was going to watch this live and completely forgot about it in the midst of my work.

I saunter onto youtube and you already have it posted before I even remember I missed it! Excellent video, I'm glad to see everybody got home safely!

Thanks again, Bruno.

[BrunoTheQuestionable]

Thanks Zombie - I couldn't improve on NASA TV's editing this time so this was a quick post of a straight capture.

[El135o]

7:02 -- was she level? Starboard main looks to touch first, seems she put it down a bit hard.

[mach25man]

That is a page in the post landing procedure. No deltas means they will stick to their normal landing procedures. That means there are no leaky thrusters, nothing that broke or is over heating and no tire problems etc.

[John19182004]

Page 5-3 is the page to turn to on the post-landing checklists.. Delta's are emergencies.. no Delta's is good; means nothing's wrong.

[lhmodel]

anyone knows what they mean by saying after all landings, right after the wheel-stop: " meet you on page 5/3 ?NO DELTAS? what does those Deltas mean?

thx for the vid. STS-120 was such a great mission and the crew was really in "harmony" :-)

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Hehehehe... At 875ft, air might as well be soup if you've got that much velocity !!!

[fwayndo1]

haha 7:30 that bird is like "HOLY F*K!"

[fwayndo1]

haha what would have been funnier is if she said "discovery flying at an altitude of 875 feet, at 60,000 miles an hour" lol

[fwayndo1]

OMG its very annoying how anything thats in the air within 219374 feet of a space shuttle is automatically OMG UFO!!!

its called a bird, maybe youve heard of them before.

[IntermittentSprocket]

Saw the landing live on NASA TV perfect text book landing by Pam, that shuttle has a lot of features on it.

[yox76x]

6:52 UFO view the landing..