Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Shuttle undocks for Earth return


Scott Parazynski was sent out on the end of a boom to fix a solar wing

The Discovery shuttle has undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) to start its journey home.

The orbiter pushed away from the outpost some 350km (220 miles) above the Pacific Ocean.

Discovery's crew has delivered a new connecting node to the station, dropped off a new resident and undertaken a remarkable series of spacewalks.

The ship is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1302 local time (1802 GMT) on Wednesday.

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