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The space shuttle Discovery landed in California on Friday evening after bad weather near Kennedy Space Center forced it to wave off a landing in Florida. The shuttle touched down at 5:53 pm local time (0053 GMT) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where NASA described the weather as pristine. Discovery was initially scheduled to return to Earth on Thursday, but poor weather in central Florida forced a delay. Discovery spent 13 days in space on a mission designed to equip the International Space Station (ISS) with more than 15,000 pounds of supplies, including life support gear and scientific equipment. The crew executed three spacewalks and dropped off the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, or COLBERT treadmill.
