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Discovery's Crew Happy with Safe Return

The Space Shuttle Discovery landed flawlessly early Tuesday at Edwards Air Force base in California. Bad weather forced NASA to divert the shuttle from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins says the mission showed again "how important spaceflight is."

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Joe Palca is a science correspondent for NPR.
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