Atlantis Deorbit Burn!
By TonyF on 21 September 2006 at 6:11AM
DEORBIT BURN - Atlantis is heading home! NASA reports:
Atlantis Begins Descent to Florida
STS-115 Commander Brent Jett and Pilot Chris Ferguson fired Space Shuttle Atlantis’ engines at 5:14 a.m. EDT, beginning the descent to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Atlantis and its six astronauts are on track to touch down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at 6:21 a.m.
Landing will bring to a close STS-115’s successful mission to resume construction of the International Space Station. Atlantis launched Sept. 9 and arrived at the station on the 11th. The crew delivered the P3/P4 integrated truss segment and conducted three successful spacewalks primarily devoted to preparing the truss and its solar arrays for operation.
Ground Tracks here. Check the links at right for play-by-play and NASA TV.
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