Space commute Atlantis is back on Earth, and its flying job is over. Atlantis and its six-man company landed at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday morning. It pronounced the end of Atlantis' 25 years of service.
Only two alternate missions remain, by NASA's two other spaceships. The while action would dig Atlantis to earn to the International Space Station next June. But that's not in the cards unless the White House grants a reprieve. The organize standing construction office boosted Atlantis' mileage to just over 120 million miles, accumulated over 32 flights. It was a prosperous matrix provoke for Atlantis.
The shuttle and its astronauts port the outpost bigger and more powerful, adding a unfamiliar bay and keen batteries. Astronauts earn 3rd and finishing spacewalk of vocation Spacewalking astronauts finished putting in a immature six-pack of batteries at the International Space Station on Friday, a $22 million prerogative renovate that was their closing crucial objective. It was the third and ultimate spacewalk this week for the visiting band of shuttle Atlantis. Within three hours of floating outside, Garrett Reisman and Michael Good had plugged in the leftover two revitalized batteries.
Four were installed during Wednesday's spacewalk by Good and another spaceman. Spacewalk hit by fugitive authority outage, no peril A prejudiced drive outage at the International Space Station momentarily interrupted Monday's spacewalk, knocking out robotic camera views of the two astronauts as they worked to institute a rescue antenna. The outage happened two hours into the spacewalk by Atlantis crewmen Garrett Reisman and Stephen Bowen.
The latitude station's pipeline command-and-control computer in the twinkling of an eye crashed. A backup computer kicked in, but ascendancy for the time being was extinct to some equipment, including the video monitors being utilized by the puppet arm operator, Piers Sellers. Reisman was perched on the end of the leeway station's 58-foot android arm when Sellers hopeless his camera views. Bowen was working with connectors on the wait station's framework.
Both were told to desist what they were doing.
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