CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. Space shuttle Discovery landed smoothly in Florida on Monday at the end of a 13-day mission meant to show the fleet is fit to fly safely, three years after the fatal Columbia accident.
Double sonic booms thundered over central Florida as the shuttle glided through partly cloudy skies heading toward a three-mile-long (five km) runway at the Kennedy Space Center.
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