CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The U.S. space shuttle Discovery landed smoothly in Florida on Monday, ending a successful 13-day mission that NASA hopes will return the U.S.-built shuttles to regular space flights three years after the Columbia disaster.
Double sonic booms thundered over central Florida as the shuttle glided through partly cloudy skies toward a five-km-long runway at the Kennedy Space Center.
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