Saturday, March 28, 2009

After completing mission STS-119, space shuttle DISCOVERY lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 28, 2009.
NASA / Kim Shiflett

BACK ON EARTH... I was gonna post a lengthy entry about how the International Space Station (ISS) now resembles artists’ renderings of the outpost when it was first conceived in 1984 (as Space Station Freedom), but I don’t wanna. Instead, here’s a pic of Discovery touching down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida today...and another of the ISS in all its (81% completed) glory...

The International Space Station, as of March 28, 2009.
NASA

UPDATE (March 29): This photo is now my desktop wallpaper...

The International Space Station, with orbital sunset behind it.
NASA
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