Space shuttle Atlantis will try for an early morning landing at Kennedy Space Center - weather permitting.
This is the shuttle final scheduled mission.
If given the go-ahead, the crew would fire Atlantis' twin braking rockets starting at 7:41 a.m. for 3 minutes and 10 seconds. That would slow the shuttle enough to drop it out of orbit.
That would bring the shuttle over Central America, Cuba and up the eastern coast of Florida for a landing on KSC's Runway 33 at 8:48 a.m.
If weather doesn't cooperate, Atlantis will have a second landing opportunity at 10:22 a.m. at KSC. The shuttle could remain in orbit through Friday, allowing for two more opportunities at KSC on both Thursday and Friday before NASA officials called up the back-up site, Edwards Air Force Base in California, on Friday.
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1 comment:
Wow another beautiful mission.
Thank God for President Obama- not a single shuttle disaster on his watch. Unlike the last president.
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