The Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for takeoff September 12, 1996 at 6:26 a.m.
Space shuttle Atlantis landed for the last time at Kennedy Space Center at 5:57 a.m. this morning.
His first was 17 years ago when he flew on the space shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station.
Almost 30 years later, Jerry Linenger launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to return to Earth on Friday.
The US shuttle Atlantis and its six crewmen are heading back to Earth, wrapping up the craft's 32nd - and probably final - trip into space.
Space Shuttle Endeavour was staged for a possible rescue mission in case Space Shuttle Atlantis gets into trouble while the crew is fixing the Hubble Telescope.
Suspended outside the shuttle Atlantis more than 500km above Earth, the astronauts were delayed by a handrail blocking a cover held by 111 tiny screws that had to be undone.
After 25 years, 32 successful missions, and more than 120-million miles traveled, space shuttle Atlantis made what's likely to be its last landing yesterday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Officials had said the missile would not be fired until the space shuttle Atlantis landed, which it did Wednesday morning, to ensure the shuttle would not be struck by any debris from the destroyed satellite.
But there were further delays when a specialised tool designed to remove the screws of the cover plate had to be returned to the shuttle Atlantis to have its worn out batteries replaced with fully charged ones.
"This is the time when we have to say goodbye to our friends, our colleagues, the excellent crew of shuttle Atlantis that did an excellent job performing three EVAs, installing the new Russian module, having good fun, enjoying living on the station and working in space, " the ISS Expedition 23 commander Oleg Kotov told Ken Ham, who leads the Atlantis crew.
The final remaining shuttle, Atlantis, is being readied for display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
On Endeavour's return, the only active ship left in the US space agency's (Nasa) shuttle fleet will be Atlantis.
If you don't feel like walking, Atlantis minivans constantly shuttle guests around.
Suffredini said Monday that space station crew is well-supplied due to the delivery of goods by the final U.S. shuttle mission carried out by Atlantis last month.
But no one at Nasa could be pushed on when Atlantis, the next shuttle in line, will make its journey into space.
They told me to walk down the long, tree-lined driveway and wait in the street for a shuttle bus that makes a loop of the various Atlantis properties.
The shuttle program will always be dear to my heart and the final return of Atlantis is a bittersweet moment.
Endeavour, along with Discovery, Enterprise and Atlantis, became a museum piece after NASA ended its 30-year shuttle program in July 2011.
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