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From NASA?s Kennedy Space Center, I?m George Diller.
Eight days after landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California to end the STS-125 mission, space shuttle
Atlantis began a two-day trip back to its home base at Kennedy.
Joined to the top of a modified 747 at NASA?s Dryden Flight Research Center, Atlantis soared into the
California skies June 1 beginning a 2,500-mile trek that crossed the southern United States before
arriving in Florida.
Along the way, the aircraft landed twice in Texas and once in Mississippi for refueling.
The 747 carried Atlantis along the beaches of central Florida before touching down at Kennedy?s Shuttle
Landing Facility on June 2.
Technicians will remove Atlantis from the 747 before readying it for its next flight.
For NASA?s Kennedy Space Center, I?m George Diller.