is expected to land at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday
Tonight (Wednesday) at 21:53 Israel time, the shuttle Discovery left the International Space Station and thus mission STS-119 is coming to an end. The shuttle crew members stayed at the space station for nine days, 20 hours and ten minutes.
Among other things, astronaut Sandra Magnus, who spent 129 days on the station and 134 days in space, is returning to Earth aboard Discovery. She was replaced by Koichi Wakata, a representative of the Japanese Space Agency who will operate the Japanese laboratory of the space station - Kibu.
After completing the circle of the station, Discovery performed a separation maneuver from the station.
Currently, the shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday at 13:43 p.m. local time, 20:43 p.m. Israel time (as I recall, we are back seven hours later than night - Thursday - due to the switch to daylight saving time in Israel).
