April 20, 2010 --
Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts ended a
two-week journey of more than 6.2 million miles with a
Tuesday morning landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in
Florida. Returning to Earth aboard the orbiter were STS-131
Commander Alan Poindexter, Pilot Jim Dutton, and Mission
Specialists Stephanie Wilson, Rick Mastracchio, Clay Anderson, Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger
and Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency.
The STS-131 mission to the International Space Station included three spacewalks, the installation of equipment outside the ISS, and the transfer of thousands of pounds of cargo and supplies from the orbiter's payload bay to various locations on the station.
