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Theme : Space Shuttle - Landing  (358 images)

Title : The lights on Runway 15 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility spotlight Atlantis as

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(07/24/2001) -- The lights on Runway 15 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility spotlight Atlantis as it touches down, completing a 12-day, 18-hour, 34-minute-long STS-104 mission. Main gear touchdown occurred at 11:38:55 p.m. EDT. 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, which was subsequently attached to the Unity Node, completing the second phase of the assembly of the Space Station