The Atlantis crew arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday to begin final preparations for mission STS-115. Flying T-38 trainer jets, the astronauts landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility at 11:30 a.m. EDT. The Atlantis crew members have been trainned for 4 years and set a record! They should have done this mission more than 3 years ago but the Columbia disaster put off the mission.
They are going to install the P3/P4 integrated truss and a second set of solar arrays on the space station, doubling the station’s current ability to generate power from sunlight and adding 17.5 tons to its mass.
The Atlantis crew launches at 10.30a.m. EDT, 29 hours from now. To know more about the crew members, please kindly visit NASA.
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