Written by Derek Kessler on
Saturday, 23 February 2008
After a successful delivery and construction mission to the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle Atlantis safely touched down at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 9:07 AM on Wednesday. The mission covered over five million miles in orbit while the shuttle crew installed the new ESA-built Columbus Laboratory onto the ISS. The mission as a whole went off without a hitch, apart from the unexpected temporary undisclosed illness of one of the shuttle's crew. Atlantis has been returned to the shuttle processing hangars for a thorough inspection in preparation for its next launch, STS-125, planned for August of this year.
After a successful delivery and construction mission to the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle Atlantis safely touched down at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 9:07 AM on Wednesday. The mission covered over five million miles in orbit while the shuttle crew installed the new ESA-built Columbus Laboratory onto the ISS. The mission as a whole went off without a hitch, apart from the unexpected temporary undisclosed illness of one of the shuttle's crew. Atlantis has been returned to the shuttle processing hangars for a thorough inspection in preparation for its next launch, STS-125, planned for August of this year.
