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You will be very pleased to hear that Space Shuttle Atlantis and her crew have landed safely today at Kennedy Space Center at 6:21 a.m. EDT. The very latest NASA mission to the International Space Station lasted a total of 11 days 19 hours 6 minutes and 35 seconds (thats the precision of NASA for you!) and despite numerous delays before launch and delays to the landing date, the crew touched down without encountering major problems.
The huge part of Space Shuttle Atlantis' mission was the delivery and construction of a new Solar Panel upgrade for the station which it completed successfully on September 17th. It then took the crew a further 4 days before they could land instead of 3 due to an unidentified object outside the Space Shuttle. Despite the various precautions and delays that the Atlantis mission endured, NASA and the world have deemed the mission a huge success, with no Shuttle-based problems whilst in space and another construction mission completed. Hopefully this will pave the way for many more successful shuttle missions in the future until they are replaced by the in-development Orion Moonship.
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