Sentence examples for discovery landing from inspiring English sources

"You never know what will happen when the shuttle re-enters the atmosphere," said Avian Clarke, a New Yorker who remembers watching on television as the shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986 and will not let her 4-year-old daughter watch the Discovery landing live.

My kids and I were absolutely floored while watching the live stream of the Mars Discovery landing.

Deborah Buck, 48, an antiques dealer from Manhattan, said she planned to watch the Discovery landing with her son, Sam, 11, and her husband, Christopher, simply because they are all space fanatics.

After the Discovery lands, only two shuttle flights remain.

Shuttle Lands Safely After 13-Day Mission The space shuttle Discovery landed safely, ending a nearly flawless 13-day mission.

Reporting on the scientific outcome of the 10-day mission, which ended on Nov. 7, 1988, when the space shuttle Discovery landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the scientists said Mr. Glenn, then 77, responded as well as astronauts half his age.

A3 NATIONAL A12-18 Discovery Lands Safely; Mission Is Called a Success The shuttle Discovery glided back to Earth to a pre-dawn landing in the Mojave desert, after a mission of 14 days and 5.8 million miles that successfully returned NASA to manned space flight but also added pressure on the agency to move beyond the shuttle program.

He had modestly named his discovery "Wilkes Land", mapped it and reported his find to the Secretary of the American Navy.

"The key insight from GSD&M was that the brand was not being viewed as accessible enough," said Kim McCullough, model manager for Discovery at Land Rover North America.

He scrutinized the original letter from Christopher Columbus to the king and queen of Spain in Latin announcing the discovery of land in the Western Hemisphere.

It is the opinion of this Department that the discovery of lands unknown to civilization, even when coupled with a formal taking of possession, does not support a valid claim of sovereignty, unless the discovery is followed by an actual settlement of the discovered country.