Atlantis Returns Safely to Kennedy Space Center
June 4, 2009
NASA’s modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft carrying the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Tuesday evening, concluding a more than 2,500-mile cross-country ferry flight from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. credit: NASA
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