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Shuttle Atlantis Landing at Edwards
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Shuttle Atlantis Landing at Edwards

NASA / AFRC · 1985-12-03 · photograph (digital archive)

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NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down on the lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert Tuesday, 3 December 1985 at 1:33:49 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, concluding the STS 61-B international mission. The eight-day mission successfully deployed three communications satellites including the Mexican Morelos B, the Australian Aussat 2 and an RCA Satcom K-2 satellite. In addition, two spacewalks were performed to experiment with construction of structures in space.

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Space ShuttleNASASpacelabIUSInertial Upper StageRockwellRocketdyneBoeingThiokolMartin MariettaLockheed MartinDryden Flight Research Center
Credit lineShuttle Atlantis Landing at Edwards. NASA/AFRC, 1985-12-03. Public domain. ID: EC85-33180-1.
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