"It was great to get Discovery home, back on Earth," Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses said about an hour after the shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California to end the STS-128 mission. "The orbiter performed almost flawlessly (during the mission)."
It will take about a week for technicians at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center to ready the shuttle for its flight across the country on the top of a modified 747, STS-128 Launch Director Pete Nickolenko said.
The seven astronauts have left the shuttle and are expected to look around the bottom of the shuttle while it sits on the runway shortly.