Photo: The drag chute is deployed as the space shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing STS-135, the final mission of the NASA shuttle program, on Thursday, July 21, ...
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The crew of seven aboard the space shuttle Atlantis spent an extra day inorbit after poor weather conditions prevented them from returning home onFriday. Showers and thunderstorms as well as low ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 21 (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday delayed for a day the landing of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis because of bad weather in Florida. Reuters, the news and media division of ...
The space shuttle passed into history Thursday, the words "wheels stop" crackling over the cockpit radio for the last time. In an almost anticlimactic end to the 30-year-old program, Atlantis and its ...