<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis" class="mw-redirect" title="Space Shuttle Atlantis">Space Shuttle Atlantis</a> casts a needle-shaped shadow as it drops to the runway at the Shuttle Landing Facility, completing the 4.5-million-mile journey to the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>. Main gear touchdown occurred at 11:43:40 a.m. EDT; nose gear touchdown at 11:43:48 a.m.; and wheel stop at 11:44:35 a.m. Mission elapsed time was 10:19:58:44. Mission <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/STS-112" title="STS-112">STS-112</a> expanded the size of the Station with the addition of the S1 truss segment. The returning crew of Atlantis are Commander Jeffrey Ashby, Pilot Pamela Melroy, and Mission Specialists David Wolf, Piers Sellers, Sandra Magnus and Fyodor Yurchikhin. This landing is the 60th at KSC in the history of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle" title="Space Shuttle">Shuttle</a> program.
NASA
2002-10-18
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