Shuttle's Landing Ends Big Year for NASA

Shuttle's Landing Ends Big Year for NASA from PhysOrg.com

(AP) -- NASA began 2006 having flown only a single space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster three years earlier. After Friday's landing of space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts, the U.S. space agency will end the year with three successful shuttle missions under its belt and the resumption of construction on the international space station.[...]