The Discovery landed safely, around 20:00, Israel time
After a mission that lasted 15 days, 2 hours, 23 minutes and 55 seconds, the space shuttle Discovery landed, a smooth landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, thus concluding a successful mission to the International Space Station.
During their stay on the space station, which began on October 25, the STS-120 crew continued construction of the space station with the installation of the Harmony Node2 module and the repositioning of the P6 support.
The crew installed Harmony on October 26, and performed four spacewalks during its stay. during The third spacewalk, the team moved and installed the P6 support in its permanent position, and its array of solar collectors in place over the support, but discovered damage to one of the solar collectors and had to stop its deployment. The fourth spacewalk was delayed and modified mid-mission to allow the crew to fix the solar collector on the P6 support. the team Corrected successfully the tear in the solar collector, and proceeded to full deployment of the array.
Discovery also transferred another person to join the space station crew, flight engineer Daniel Tani.
STS-120 is shuttle mission number 120, and the 23rd mission to visit the space station. The next mission, STS-122, is scheduled to lift off in December.
