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Description: Space Shuttle Atlantis' drag chute is deployed as the spacecraft rolls toward wheels stop on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending the STS-125 mission to repair and upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The main landing gear touched down at 8:39:05 a.m. (PDT) on May 24, 2009. Nose gear touchdown was at 8:39:15 a.m. Wheel-stop was at 8:40:15 a.m., bringing the mission's elapsed time to 12 days, 21 hours, 37 minutes, 9 seconds. Landing opportunities on May 22, May 23 and May 24 were waved off due to weather concerns at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the shuttle's primary landing site.
Title: Landingatlantis
Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/271560main_land-chute.jpg http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-125/html/sts125-s-065.html
Author: NASA/Carla Thomas
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