Six Landing Opportunities for Atlantis TodaySix landing opportunities are available for space shuttle Atlantis and the STS-125 crew to return to Earth today.
Atlantis’ first landing opportunity is at 9:15 a.m. EDT on orbit 180. If controllers elect to take it, Commander Scott Altman will perform the deorbit burn at 8:01 a.m. to begin the descent to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There are two other opportunities available for Atlantis to land at Kennedy, as well as three opportunities at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The first California landing opportunity would start with a deorbit burn at 9:29 a.m., and result in landing at 10:45 a.m.
Thunderstorms, low clouds and showers prevented Atlantis’ astronauts from landing yesterday at Kennedy.
Atlantis arrived at the Hubble Space Telescope on May 13, and the STS-125 crew performed five spacewalks on five consecutive days to repair and upgrade the telescope.
STS-125 is the 126th shuttle mission.
› View landing ground tracks
› View the Launch of Atlantis in High Definition (HD)
STS-125 Additional Resources
› Mission Summary (407KB PDF) › Press Kit (4.8MB PDF) › Meet the Crew › Learn About the Mission
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