"It lit up the Kennedy Space Center, " said shuttle flight director, Mike Leinbach.
Florida's request comes as NASA is working to revamp the Kennedy Space Center following the end of the shuttle program last year.
"They were on the beach in the vicinity of Complex 40, just south of the shuttle launch pads, " said Kennedy Space Center spokeswoman Lisa Malone.
The Soyuz will dock with Mir this weekend as the shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center.
Space shuttle Atlantis landed for the last time at Kennedy Space Center at 5:57 a.m. this morning.
The Pittsburg State number 4 team, winner in the college division, will receive a trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to view a Space Shuttle launch.
At Kennedy Space Center, the home base of NASA's shuttle fleet, all employees were allowed to return to work Thursday.
After the Bush Administration announced last year that the space shuttle would be retired in 2010, NASA's Stennis Space Center, which performs engine testing on it, went into action, wooing more private enterprises to its 140, 000-acre grounds.
The final remaining shuttle, Atlantis, is being readied for display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
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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Just this past month, Vincent finally got permission to shoot in NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, home of the soon-to-be-closed space shuttle program, and Vincent's holy grail.
Working at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, his first job at NASA was working on the space shuttle.
Unsettled weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida prompted NASA to call off today's planned landing, and the shuttle's orbit will not allow another landing attempt in Florida until tomorrow morning.
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