Sunday, May 24, 2009

Space Shuttle Atlantis landed Sunday at Edwards air force base

The U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis landed Sunday at Edwards Air Force
Base in California, two days late due to inclement weather in Florida,
NASA says.

The Space Shuttle's mission to complete repairs to the Hubble Space
Telescope officially ended at 10:39 a.m. when Commander Scott Altman
guided the spacecraft to a landing on Edwards' Runway 22, telling
mission control that the flight was "a thrill from start to finish,"
the space agency's Web site said.

NASA said continued wet and rainy weather conditions over Florida's
Kennedy Space Center Sunday morning forced flight controllers to wave
off a landing there for the third straight day, directing the craft to
instead land at the backup facility in California.

Atlantis arrived at the Hubble Space Telescope on May 13. Its crew
performed five spacewalks on five consecutive days to repair and
upgrade the telescope.

The flight was the 126th mission for the U.S. Space Shuttle program, NASA said.

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