Status Report

NASA STS-129 Report #22 2 a.m. CST Friday, Nov. 27, 2009

By SpaceRef Editor
November 27, 2009
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NASA STS-129 Report #22  2 a.m. CST Friday, Nov. 27, 2009
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Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – The crew of space shuttle Atlantis has begun what is scheduled to be the STS-129 mission’s landing day.

Atlantis will be bringing home Expedition 20 and 21 Flight Engineer Nicole Stott, who spent 87 days on the International Space Station. Her return brings to an end nearly a decade of space shuttle use to rotate crew on the International Space Station.

The seven shuttle crew members, Commander Charles Hobaugh, Pilot Barry Wilmore and Mission Specialists Leland Melvin, Randy Bresnik, Mike Foreman, Robert Satcher Jr. and Stott, were awakened this morning at 12:28 a.m. with the song

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