Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely
News story originally written on February 21, 1997
Space Shuttle Discovery landed safely at 2:32 am Central Time at the Kennedy
Space Center on Friday, February 21. This is the ninth nighttime land in
Shuttle program history. The completed mission was a complete success. The
Hubble Space Telescope has been repaired. The telescope is expected to be
running again within the next few weeks. The mission had five
spacewalks and accumulated 4.1 million miles.
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