Landing of the Space Shuttle Discovery with Astronaut Noguchi Onboard [STS-114 / International Space Station Assembly Resumption Mission (LF-1)]
August 9, 2005 (JST)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) advised that the Space Shuttle Discovery with Astronaut Noguchi of JAXA onboard (STS-114 / International Space Station Assembly Resumption Mission, LF-1) successfully landed at 8:11 a.m. on August 9 (Eastern Daylight Time, EDT), or 9:11 p.m., Japan Standard Time (JST), on the same day at the substitute landing site* of Edwards Air Force Base in California, U.S.A., to complete its mission in 13 days, 21 hours and 32 minutes.
* The change was due to bad weather at the originally scheduled landing site at the NASA Kennedy Space Center.
* This information is also available on the following websites:
http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/main/index.html
http://sts-114.jaxa.jp/en/index.html
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