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Shuttle Atlantis back home

Cape Canaveral, Usa - After the 11-day mission, including four spacewalks

The space shuttle Atlantis landed safely and on time Friday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, capping an 11-day mission to space-station Alpha. The space mission resulted in the installation of a main truss support segment and deployment and testing of the Mobile Transporter System -a kind of shuttling railcar that will creep along the entire truss system to deliver equipment to various worksites...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 26864
Rome, Italy, 04/22/2002 15:03
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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