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Space Shuttle Mission Pronounced a Success
Date: 9/21/2006 10:26:09 AM Sender: By VOA News

                                         Space Shuttle Mission Pronounced a Success
                                                        By VOA News
                                                     21 September 2006
  
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NASA officials talk with reporters following return of Space Shuttle Atlantis, September 21, 2006

The head of the U.S. space agency, NASA, has pronounced the now-complete mission of the space shuttle Atlantis a great success.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told reporters the International Space Station is now halfway complete. He added he believes it will be finished on schedule.

Atlantis made a pre-dawn landing Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA has been under pressure to finish building the space station before the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010.

During its mission, the Atlantis crew completed three challenging spacewalks to install a pair of power-generating solar panels on the space station.

Several pieces of debris were lost during the mission, but NASA officials said those losses did not put the shuttle in danger.

It was the first construction mission since shuttle flights were grounded in 2003 after the Columbia catastrophe, when another space shuttle broke apart as it was re-entering Earth＇s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board.

Atlantis, launched on September 9, originally was scheduled to land Tuesday, but the re-entry was postponed after debris was spotted floating near the shuttle. The spacecraft＇s six crew members inspected the heat shields and determined the debris caused no damage.

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