Space Station Crew Heading Back Home
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The space shuttle Discovery headed back to Cape Canaveral, ferrying the first three astronauts to live aboard space station Alpha. They face an arduous return to gravity after 141 days in space.
Landing is set for just before 1 p.m. on Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center.
“It’s like being stuck to a big magnet,” NASA flight surgeon Dr. Terry Taddeo said in describing the effect of gravity after months of floating weightless in space.
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