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Crew of STS-119 wraps up successful mission to Station

At 3:14 pm EDT on March 28, Discovery and the STS-119 crews successfully returned to Earth. During the 13-day mission, they worked with the station screw to attach the S6 Truss to the International Space Station. Spacewalkers subsequently outfitted the new truss and unfurled a massive set of solar arrays, the final set of four on the station. The also deployed a heated dispensing radiator and performed a crew change out aboard Station.

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