> Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:18:04 -0500
>
> At 5:57 a.m. EDT, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA¹s
> Kennedy Space Center after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862
> miles on STS-135.It was the 25th night landing, the 78th landing at Kennedy
> and the133rd landing in shuttle history.Atlantis¹ main gear touched down at
> 5:57:00 a.m. followed by the nose gear at 5:57:20 and wheels stop at 5:57:54
> a.m. At wheels stop, the mission elapsed time was 12 days, 18 hours, 28
> minutes and 50 seconds.The STS-135 crew consisted of Commander Chris Ferguson,
> Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim. They
> delivered more than 9,400 pounds of spare parts, spare equipment and other
> supplies in the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module - including 2,677
> pounds of food - that will sustain space station operations for the next year.
> The 21-foot long, 15-foot diameter Raffaello brought back nearly 5,700 pounds
> of unneeded materials from the station.A post-landing news conference at
> Kennedy is planned for 10 a.m. on NASA TV and
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv. The
> participants will be Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space
> Operations, Bob Cabana, Kennedy center director, Mike Moses, space shuttle
> launch integration manager, and Mike Leinbach, space shuttle launch
> director.Since STS-1 launched on April 12, 1981, 355 individuals from 16
> countries flew 852 times aboard the shuttle. The five shuttles traveled more
> than 542 million miles and hosted more than 2,000 experiments in the fields of
> Earth, astronomy, biological and materials sciences. The shuttles docked with
> two space stations, the Russian Mir and the International Space Station.
> Shuttles deployed 180 payloads, including satellites, returned 52 from space
> and retrieved, repaired and redeployed seven spacecraft.STS-135 was the 33rd
> and final flight for Atlantis, which spent 307 days in space, orbited Earth
> 4,848 times and traveled 125,935,769 miles.A welcome home ceremony for the
> astronauts will be held Friday, July 22, in Houston. The public is invited to
> attend the 4 p.m. CDT event at NASA's Hangar 990 at Ellington Field. Gates to
> Ellington Field will open at 3:30 p.m. The ceremony will be broadcast live on
> NASA Television.
>
>
> A los amigos lejanos y cercanos.
> A los estudiantes que llegan extraviados a este bar.
> Ha terminado una era que tal vez muchos ni se enteraron que existio,
> Honor y gloria a los valientes de todos los paises que participaron en los
> vuelos de los trasbordadores
>
> Edgar
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