Destiny Awaken: Jun 3, 2009

Air Force Base

by Tasfik at/on 5:13 PM
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After a flight from Edwards Air Force Base space shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center aboard a NASA 747 in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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The Flight

by Tasfik at/on 4:10 PM
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Fly Away Home

This overhead view is of Atlantis atop a modified 747 as the craft flew over California's high desert. Atlantis and the crew of the STS-125 mission landed at Edwards Air Force Base on May 24, 2009, and departed Edwards on the journey home via ferry to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, June 1, 2009. The shuttle landed safely the following day at 6:53 p.m. EDT.

Image Credit: NASA/Jim Ross

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