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, ...
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth safely Friday, ending a two-week mission to deliver an addition to the international space station and bring a ...
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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 ...
Shuttle lands in Calif. after rainouts in Fla. and mission to repair Hubble. May 24, 2009— -- Space Shuttle Atlantis, concluding a 13-day flight to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, came in for ...
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 ...