Welcome Home, Discovery

Space shuttle Discovery touched down safely at Kennedy Space Center yesterday afternoon at 3:14 p.m. EDT. This brought a safe conclusion to its mission, referred to as STS-119. Here are some interesting facts about the mission:

-Astronaut Sandra Magnus returned to Earth aboard Discovery. She had spent a total of 134 days in space, with 129 of them being aboard the Internation Space Station (ISS).
-Discovery spent 13 days in space. 8 of those days were spent docked to the ISS.
-Astronauts aboard discovery completed 3 spacewalks. Each spacewalk lasted about 6.5 hours.
-During the mission, Discovery traveled 5.3 million miles and completed 202 orbits of Earth.
-This was the 125th space shuttle mission. It was Discovery's 36th trip into space.