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The Space Shuttle Discovery touched down safely in California Tuesday after spending two weeks in space, making it the first successful shuttle landing since Columbia broke apart upon re-entry over two-and-a-half years ago. walaa shaja3aaa



this about The crew

Pilot James Kelly
flew Discovery to the space station in 2001. Now he's made the trip again, flying an improved, but not perfect, Discovery.

Eileen Collins
The first woman ever to pilot a space shuttle, commander Eileen Collins adds to her string of firsts by heading up this test mission returning NASA to space after the Columbia disaster.

Soichi Noguchi
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi took three spacewalks during this, his first space flight.

Stephen Robinson
was the hero of the day with his deft tug on a couple of pieces of protruding ceramic-fabric that fill gaps between the shuttle's thermal tiles. It was the only in-orbit shuttle repair job.


Andrew Thomas
As deputy chief of the astronaut office in 2003, Andrew Thomas found himself caring for grieving families of the Columbia astronauts. By the end of that year, he found himself assigned to the shuttle crew that would return NASA to space.

Navy Capt. Wendy Lawrence
Discovery's crew found a taskmaster in Navy Capt. Wendy Lawrence.
The helicopter pilot was responsible for getting thousands of pounds of supplies onto the space station and thousands more pounds of discarded equipment, trash and other unneeded items off for return to Earth aboard the shuttle.


Charles Camard
Whenever a shuttle problem cropped up, astronaut Charles Camarda sent reassuring e-mails to his wife that she knew were probably the best assessments of the situation. After all, he spent two decades specializing in thermal structures, a key aspect of NASA's return-to-flight effort.

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