Discovery Shuttle Undocks From International Space Station
The U.S. space shuttle Discovery has undocked from the International Space Station Wednesday morning and will be leaving the brand new Japanese science lab that they came to install. It took the crew nine days to install the Kibo lab.
They are taking back with them the U.S. astronaut Garrett Reisman to be a new member of their crew. For three months he was a part of the three person crew on the space station. Gregory Chamitoff will be replacing him.
Before returning home, Discovery’s astronauts will use the shuttle’s laser-tipped inspection boom to survey their ship’s wings and nose cap to check for damage from debris generated when the shuttle launched on May 31.