Space shuttle Atlantis lands
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- 8 July 2011: End of an era: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on final mission in program
- 27 May 2010: Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center
- 14 May 2010: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches for the final time
- "Space shuttle Atlantis cleared for landing" — Wikinews, September 21, 2006
Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis is one of the fleet of space shuttles belonging to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It was the fourth operational shuttle built. Following the destruction of Columbia, it is one of the three fully operational shuttles remaining in the fleet. The other two are Discovery and Endeavour. After it completes STS-125, the final Hubble Space Telescope service mission, Atlantis is scheduled to be the first shuttle retired from the fleet.
- Discovery
- Endeavour
- Columbia (destroyed)
- Challenger (destroyed)
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Space Shuttle Atlantis has made a night landing at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday finishing off STS-115 which lasted 13 days. The orbiter landed safely at 6:21:30 a.m. EDT, on runway 33 at KSC. The return of Atlantis to Earth avoided a traffic jam at the space station, as Soyuz TMA-9 Expedition 14 docked with the ISS on September 20, 2006 at 12:21AM CDT (09:21AM Moscow Time) which included space tourist Anousheh Ansari.
Sources
- "Shuttle tiles appear in good shape after re-entry, NASA says" — CBC News, September 21, 2006
- Rob Coppinger. "Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center after successful 12-day mission" — Flight International, September 21, 2006
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