NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, and NASA Executive Officer to the Deputy Administrator Garvey McIntosh scan the sky for the space shuttle Discovery as it approaches for landing from its 39th and final flight at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., March 9, 2011. Since 1984, Discovery flew 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited Earth 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 miles.
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Kennedy Space Center
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NASA/Bill Ingalls
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, and NASA Executive Officer to the Deputy Administrator Garvey McIntosh scan the sky for the space shuttle Discovery as it approaches for landing from its 39th and final flight at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., March 9, 2011. Since 1984, Discovery flew 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited Earth 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 miles.