Welcome Back Discovery Lands Safely at Kennedy

Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts ended a twoweek journey of more than 6. 2 million miles with a Tuesday morning landing at NASA s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Returning to Earth aboard the orbiter were STS131 Commander Alan Poindexter, Pilot Jim Dutton, and Mission Specialists Stephanie Wilson, Rick Mastracchio, Clay Anderson, Dottie MetcalfLindenburger and Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The STS131 mission to the International Space Station included three spacewalks, the installation of equipment outside the ISS, and the transfer of thousands of pounds of cargo and supplies from the orbiter s payload bay to various locations on the station.