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Part four in our space ship segment says simply that Discovery has returned safely. Says Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune,

If that modest, almost circular goal lacked the drama and imagination of the first moon landing, it did not lack for importance. NASA needed a successful Discovery mission to erase the stain of the failed Columbia flight that came before it--and to prove to Congress and an increasingly skeptical American public that the bureaucracy-laden space agency can manage infinitely more complex plans to return to the moon and, eventually, fly on to Mars.