The Atlantis crew has performed the Flight Control System checkout and the Reaction Control System hot-fire…
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STS-129 Crew Preparing to Return Home
Commander Charlie Hobaugh, Pilot Barry Wilmore and Mission Specialists Randy Bresnik, Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Robert…
STS-129 MCC Status Report #20
The seven-member crew of Atlantis is packing the orbiter and preparing to return home, wrapping up…
STS-129 MCC Status Report #21
Atlantis crew members spent part of Thanksgiving Day preparing for their scheduled Friday landing.
The Way Home
Seen over the Mediterranean Sea, near the Algerian coast, the space shuttle Atlantis is featured in…
Flight Controllers Develop Workaround to Bypass Suspect Filter
A routine disposal overboard of waste water and urine collected aboard Atlantis was terminated early. It…
Waste Water Dump Nozzle Not Concern for Friday Landing
Shuttle astronauts used the camera on the Orbiter Boom Sensor System to survey the condition of…
Waste Water Dump Flow Reduction Not Expected to be Issue
During a purge of the space shuttle waste water tank Wednesday morning, Mission Control noticed a…
Orbiter Boom Sensor System Uncradled
Space shuttle Atlantis' crew uncradled the 50-foot-long Orbiter Boom Sensor System, or OBSS, from the payload…
Atlantis Separates from International Space Station
After completing a full circle around the International Space Station, space shuttle Atlantis fired its thrusters…