Shuttle Atlantis is back at its home port this morning after giving people along the Space Coast beaches an early Independence Day spectacle.
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and Atlantis touched down at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility at 8:24 a.m. after buzzing the Brevard beaches from the Pineda Causeway north through Cocoa Beach on their way to the spaceport.
People along the beach got a limited view because of cloudy skies, but the big 747 with the shuttle mounted on top ducked in and out of the clouds here and there along the way. Those who went to the trouble to get out to the beach pointed and clapped as they got a glimpse of one of America's three space shuttle orbiters.
Atlantis returns to KSC this morning after a 14-day mission to the International Space Station in June, which ended with a landing at the backup landing site at Edwards Air Force Base in California a week ago Friday.
Atlantis is scheduled to launch on its next mission in December.
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