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From NASA?s Kennedy Space Center, I?m George Diller.

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Eight days after landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California to end the STS-125 mission, space shuttle

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Atlantis began a two-day trip back to its home base at Kennedy.

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Joined to the top of a modified 747 at NASA?s Dryden Flight Research Center, Atlantis soared into the

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California skies June 1 beginning a 2,500-mile trek that crossed the southern United States before

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arriving in Florida.

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Along the way, the aircraft landed twice in Texas and once in Mississippi for refueling.

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The 747 carried Atlantis along the beaches of central Florida before touching down at Kennedy?s Shuttle

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Landing Facility on June 2.

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Technicians will remove Atlantis from the 747 before readying it for its next flight.

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For NASA?s Kennedy Space Center, I?m George Diller.