For 8 p.m. EST Friday, Nov. 3, 2000.

Shuttle Discovery has completed the last leg of the STS-92 mission with its return late this afternoon to the Kennedy Space Center.

Riding atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, the spaceplane finished a two-day ferry flight that began Thursday at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The duo spent the evening at an air base in Missouri.

Discovery's seven astronauts ended their mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, October 24, at Edwards after bad weather in Florida prevented an east coast landing for three days in a row.

Since then a team of some 200 KSC engineers and technicians have worked at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to prepare the orbiter for its spaceport homecoming.

Before touching down on the shuttle runway, 747 pilots Bob Brockett and Gordon Fullerton flew low along Florida's Space Coast to give area residents a dramatic and amazing view of the world's most unusual bi-plane -- a tradition not seen here for more than four years.

That's how long it's been since NASA was forced to end a shuttle mission in California.