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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At C Spray Glass Blasting of Cocoa Beach, Fla., the commemorative plaque to mark space shuttle Discovery’s wheel stop location has been completed. The special plaque will be permanently mounted at the Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF, runway edge at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to commemorate Discovery’s final landing. Discovery completed the STS-133 mission by landing at the SLF on March 9, 2011, at 11:57 a.m. EST. Discovery flew 39 missions, completed 5,830 orbits of the Earth, traveled 148 million miles and spent 365 days in space. Atlantis carried 252 astronauts to space. Photo credit: NASA/Lorne Mathre