On This Day: Discovery makes final landing On March 9, 2011, after 39 flights over 27 years of service, the space shuttle Discovery made its final landing at Kennedy Space Center. By (0) NASA's space shuttle Discovery approaches Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility for an on-time landing at 11:57 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center on March 9, 2011. File Photo by Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell/UPI | License Photo On March 9, 1945, more than 300 American B-29 bombers attacked Tokyo with incendiary bombs, killing about 100,000 people and destroying an estimated 250,000 buildings over 16 square miles. File Photo by Ishikawa Kōyō/Wikimedia The lead flower car for the funeral procession of rapper Notorious B.I.G., aka Christopher Wallace, leaves Campbells Funeral Home in Manhattan, on March 18, 1997, after services. Wallace died March 9, 1997, in a drive-by shooting. File Photo by Ezio Petersen/UPI | License Photo