Discovery Crew Gets Ready for Landing

Space shuttle Discovery’s wakeup song for landing day was “Coming Home” by Gwyneth Paltrow, played for the entire crew and selected by the space station flight controllers in Mission Control.

Commander Steve Lindsey and his five crew members will begin deorbit preparations a little before 7 a.m. for their planned landing at 11:57 a.m. EST at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.