(19 Aug 2005) SHOTLIST
1. US Space shuttle Discovery a top of a 747 aircraft as it coasts along runway
2. UPSOUND (English) Mission Control, overlaid with various shots of Discovery on top of 747 aircraft coasting along tarmac:
"Discovery''s 14-day mission ended at Edwards Airforce base in the pre-dawn hours of August 9th, after a 5.8 million mile journey. The mission ended with a landing Pacific time at 5.11 am on August 9th. And Discovery now on take off-roll, a top a 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, just about to begin the first leg of its return back to the Kennedy space centre."
3. Wide shot 747 aircraft carrying Discovery, taking off from runway. Pans out to close up of aircraft and space shuttle in the air
4. VOICE OVER (English) Mission Control, overlaid with shot of aircrafts in the air:
"And the ferry flight of Discovery''s under way. The first stop again planned to be Altas airforce base in south western Oklahoma. It''s about a three hour trip from California to Altas airforce base, it will be a refuelling stop, weather permitting."
5. Rear shot of 747 carrying Discovery flying away
STORYLINE
NASA''s space shuttle Discovery, the first shuttle to fly since 2003, on Friday began its cross-country trip back to Kennedy Space Centre in Florida - on top of a modified Boeing Commercial airliner.
The shuttle''s 22-hundred mile (3,539 kilometre) trip home from California was expected to take about two days.
The plane was scheduled to stop for refuelling and was expected to arrive in Florida late on Saturday.
Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base north of Los Angeles on August 9 after a 14-day mission to the International Space Station.
It was the first shuttle mission since Columbia was destroyed on its return to Earth in 2003.
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