Discovery prepares to undock, bids farewell to space station

Discovery prepares to undock, bids farewell to space station
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Summary Shuttle Discovery's crew bid farewell to their colleagues on the International Space Station.

Discovery delivered a new storage and research module, an external storage platform, spare radiator and a prototype humanoid robot named Robonaut-2 to the orbiting outpost. The 8-day mission also included two spacewalks.Discovery is scheduled to undock from the space station on Monday and land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday.This is Discoverys final mission to the space station before NASA retires its fleet and ends the shuttle program this year. NASA plans to fly shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis one more time each before they are retired.

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