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Discovery and its seven astronauts safely landed Tuesday morning at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a two-week mission that involved unexpected repair spacewalks and a visit to the International Space Station.

The space shuttle Discovery glided to a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California early Tuesday morning after a 14-day mission. Jeffrey Brown talks about the shuttle's return and what comes next in NASA's space program with two experts.

An astronaut gently plucked two protruding and potentially dangerous fiber strips from the space shuttle Discovery's underbelly Wednesday. The first American woman to walk in space weighs in on the repair job.

NASA announced Wednesday that all future shuttle flights would be grounded because the problem of foam peeling off the fuel tank -- and possibly damaging the shuttle during liftoff -- has not been eliminated. Two experts discuss the future of…