Saturday, 9 July 2011

NASA’s Atlantis launched for the Last Shuttle Mission



     The mood of the crowd during the blastoff of the Atlantis space shuttle was bittersweet. Hundreds of thousands of people were present to witness the launch, and many more were watching live coverage all over the world.The path of the Atlantis' return to Earth will be finalized closer to the landing date,
It will take the shuttle 1 day, 23 hours and 43 minutes to get to the space station, arriving at 10:06 a.m. CDT Sunday.The Atlantis crew will carry the first iPhone into space to help with experiments on this mission.


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