Space shuttle Discovery sits atop the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747" title="Boeing 747">Boeing 747</a> Shuttle Carrier Aircraft as it touched down at <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kennedy_Space_Center" title="Category:Kennedy Space Center">Kennedy Space Centre</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>. After three fuelling stops that included an overnight stay in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, the piggybacked shuttle had to navigate through a line of showers across Louisiana and around Kennedy.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117448892" class="extiw" title="d:Q117448892"><span title="NASA photographer">Kim Shiflett</span></a>
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2009-09-22
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