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Kyle Herring/Mission Control And landing gear is down. Main gear touchdown. And nose gear touchdown.

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Space shuttle Discovery's rolling out on Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center,

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completing 202 orbits of the Earth while traveling 5,304,000 miles.

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This landing marks the 70th shuttle mission to end at KSC.

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Discovery spent eight days docked to the International Space Station,

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leaving behind the first Japanese long-duration crew member and

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also leaving it more power capability -- setting the stage for an increase to six-person crew in late May.

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Sandy Magnus, mission specialist, now aboard Discovery -- home after 134 days in space,

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129 of those aboard the International Space Station. Discovery's completing the 36th voyage

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of its life and the 125th space shuttle mission in the history of the program.

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Lee Archambault/STS-119 Commander Houston, Discovery is wheelstop.

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George Zamka/STS-119 CAPCOM Houston copies, wheelstop. Welcome home Discovery after a great mission to bring the

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International Space Station to full power. Special welcome home to Sandy after living and working on board ISS as a member of

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Expedition 18 and to the entire crew of STS-119. Great job everybody.

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Lee Archambault/STS-119 Commander Discovery, thank you very much. It's good to be back home.

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