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the seven-person crew returned to earth on tuesday after being the first to take a space shuttle into orbit since the columbia disaster of 2003.
"in the last two and a half years, we have been through the very worst that manned space flight can bring us, and over the past two weeks we have seen the very best," nasa administrator michael griffin told the astronauts and their families, colleagues and fans wednesday.
the crowd waved american flags for the u.s. astronauts and japanese flags for crew member soichi noguchi, one of the spacewalkers.
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while the homecoming has been filled with excitement for what mission controllers declared a "truly spectacular test flight," uncertainty remains for the future of the shuttle program.
shortly after discovery blasted off july 26, a nearly 1-pound chunk of foam insulation fell from the fuel tank -- the very thing that was supposed to have been fixed after dooming columbia.
the foam missed discovery, but nasa grounded all shuttle flights until engineers fix the problem.
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the seven-person crew returned to earth on tuesday after being the first to take a space shuttle into orbit since the columbia disaster of 2003.
"in the last two and a half years, we have been through the very worst that manned space flight can bring us, and over the past two weeks we have seen the very best," nasa administrator michael griffin told the astronauts and their families, colleagues and fans wednesday.
the crowd waved american flags for the u.s. astronauts and japanese flags for crew member soichi noguchi, one of the spacewalkers.
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while the homecoming has been filled with excitement for what mission controllers declared a "truly spectacular test flight," uncertainty remains for the future of the shuttle program.
shortly after discovery blasted off july 26, a nearly 1-pound chunk of foam insulation fell from the fuel tank -- the very thing that was supposed to have been fixed after dooming columbia.
the foam missed discovery, but nasa grounded all shuttle flights until engineers fix the problem.
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