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RE: STS-124 mission

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Space shuttle Discovery and its crew landed at 11:15 a.m. EDT Saturday, at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, completing a 14-day journey of more than 5.7 million miles in space.

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The space shuttle Discovery has successfully landed at the Kennedy space centre

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The space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 15:15 GMT, (11:15 a.m. EDT), on Saturday.

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Objects spotted on imagery beamed down from the shuttle Discovery briefly raised concerns about the plan for Saturday's landing, but after a review, NASA said on Friday that the objects posed no problem.
One of the objects, seen floating away from the shuttle after a routine test of the flight control systems and steering jets, was identified as a metal clip for Discovery's speed brake. The other object, which looked as if it was protruding from the rudder, is a normal feature that took on an unusual look because of the lighting conditions.

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The space shuttle Discovery pulled away from the International Space Station early Wednesday as the 123rd mission of the shuttle fleet headed toward a close.

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