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Discovery home from penultimate trek

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After spanning the globe 238 times in 15 days, covering 6.2 million miles, the space shuttle Discovery is towed from the Kennedy Space Center runway to Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 to prepare for its next voyage planned for launch this fall.

Credit: Spaceflight Now photos by Ben Cooper












Credit: Spaceflight Now photos by Ben Cooper
 

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