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Space shuttle Discovery and its U.S.-Russian crew landed Friday after being forced to stay up an extra orbit because of bad weather in Florida. The shuttle touched down at Kennedy Space Center at 1:19 p.m., ending a history-making mission that began just a few miles away eight days ago. Thick, low clouds and high wind prevented Discovery from landing on the first opportunity 1 1/2 hours earlier. “You’ve paved the way for a new era of cooperation in human space flight,” Mission Control told the five American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut, who were greeted in English and Russian. Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev became the first Russian to fly on a U.S. shuttle when Discovery blasted off on the science mission Feb. 3.
