The U.S. shuttle Atlantis landed today in Florida and successfully completed its last mission to the International Space Station (ISS), after a quarter century of service.
Atlantis crossed the Florida Everglades to the north, through Lake Okeechobee before declining as planned at 08:48 hours local time at Kennedy Space Center National Aeronautics and Space (NASA).
The crew of Atlantis, made by the commander Ken Ham, pilot Tony Antonelli and mission specialists Michael Good, Garrett Reisman, Piers Sellers and Steve Bowen, served a 12-day mission.
Atlantis spent nearly 300 full days in orbit in its 32 missions and traveled 193 million miles.
Now only two other missions remain, one of Discovery scheduled for next September 16 and the other from Endeavour in November, unless NASA decides otherwise.
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