Discovery is returning to Earth with a new member of the crew, though. ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, who arrived at the station on a Soyuz flight, and had been on board for several weeks, is coming back with Discovery. NASA astronaut Sunita Williams will remain on board.
Thanks to the unscheduled spacewalk to repair a troublesome solar array, Discovery will remain in space a day longer than originally planned. It’s scheduled to land at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday.
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