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Space Shuttle - Landing (358 images)
Title : Runway lights cast a rainbow from the colors in the drag chute behind Atlantis
Caption :
(07/24/2001) -- Runway lights cast a rainbow from the colors in the drag chute behind Atlantis as it lands at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Main gear touchdown occurred at 11:38:55 p.m. EDT, completing complete a 12-day, 18-hour, 34-minute-long STS-104 mission. At the controls is Commander Steven W. Lindsey. Other crew members on board are Pilot Charles Hobaugh and Mission Specialists Michael Gernhardt, Janet Lynn Kavandi and James F. Reilly. This is the 18th nighttime landing for a Space Shuttle, the 13th at Kennedy Space Center. The mission delivered the Joint Airlock Module to the International Space Station, completing the second phase of the assembly of the Space Station
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