Space Shuttle Landing Today – Shuttle Landing Path

Finally, after a few cancellations, the Space Shuttle landing early today had been a success. To the lucky ones who saw it, the shuttle landing path passed over Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, then Jacksonville Fla., before banking south to the shuttle landing field at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 15-day mission and 238 orbits of Earth..

Discovery’s main gear touched down at 9:08:35 a.m. EDT, followed by the nose gear at 9:08:47 a.m. and wheelstop at 9:09:33 a.m.

STS-131 was the 131st space shuttle mission, the 38th for Discovery and the 33rd shuttle mission to the International Space Station. It was the second flight of 2010. It is Discovery’s penultimate mission; its last flight is STS-133, targeted for Sept. 16.