[HD] STS-133 Space Shuttle Discovery last Landing ever-[9 Mar 2011]

Space shuttle Discovery and the six-person STS-133 crew lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 24, 2011, starting a mission to the International Space Station.
At 11:57 a.m. EST, space shuttle Discovery landed for the final time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center after 202 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,304,140 miles on STS-133.
STS-133 was the 39th and final flight for Discovery, which spent 365 days in space, orbited Earth 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 miles. Discovery also was the orbiter to launch the Hubble Space telescope, 17 satelites and even taking John Glenn(first American in space) back into space in his 70s!
This is the full video, from when visual was captured over Florida

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[fsxnoob]

All the best things have to end sometime =) nice vid

[planedude5]

@fsxnoob Thanks, and yes that's true, but let's hope it's for the better advancement of space exploration :)

[mikeycbd]

nice!

[planedude5]

@mikeycbd I know right! it is sad though to think that the shuttle is retiring after atlantis's launch in june, but i'm hoping that this will help us in our advancement in aerospace technology and space exploration, thanks for watching :)

[kriki1000]

jap nice job+nice vid..thx

[comedyrater99]

Sad to see such a damn good orbiter retire :(