Gina Keating
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/ 23 June 2007

Space shuttle ends mission with California landing

United States space shuttle Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Friday after a fiery descent through the Earth’s atmosphere that capped a two-week mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle touched down at Edwards at 19.49pm GMT, shimmering in the heat and sending up a plume of brownish-gray dust.

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/ 18 December 2006

Astronauts ready for space walk to fix solar panels

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station readied for a fourth spacewalk on Monday to unstick a jammed solar array in an extra excursion that extended the space shuttle Discovery‘s mission at the orbiting outpost by a day. Astronauts Robert Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang will try to clear snarled guidewires that are preventing the 33m panel from retracting.