Discovery Bids Goodbye To Nearly Complete Station

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Houston The space shuttle Discovery backed away from the International Space Station (ISS) at 3:53 p.m. EDT March 25, ending almost eight days of docked operations that added the fourth and final solar array wing to the main station truss. The station lost its Ku-band link a...

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