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spaceflightnow.com
1721 GMT (12:21 p.m. EST)

Now 40 minutes to touchdown. Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility was built in 1975. The concrete strip is 300 feet wide and 15,000 feet long with 1,000-foot overruns at each end. The runway is located about three miles northwest of the 525-foot tall Vehicle Assembly Building.

Discovery is targeting Runway 33, which is the southeast to northwest approach. The shuttle will make a 195-degree overhead turn to align with the runway.

This will be the first daytime landing on Runway 33 since 2002.

Been reading Hoagland’s latest book. I doubt everything NASA says. This is beyond question not the dirst daytime landing on 33 since 2002, but the 33 is especially significant, right, Richard?