Space Shuttle Atlantis Lands at KSC
July 3rd, 2007
Kennedy Space Center, FL - The shuttle carrier aircraft, or SCA, and its piggyback passenger Atlantis near touchdown on the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility. The SCA is a modified Boeing 747 jetliner. Touchdown was at 8:27 a.m. EDT. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California to end mission STS-117. The return to KSC began July 1 and took three days after stops across the country for fuel.
