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Ended smoothly the Atlantis mission

Cape Canaveral, USA - Last night the job to ultimate the installation

With a total of more than 61 hours floating in the space, Atlantis crew finished to install the cooling system that is, by now, part of the ISS; this device will operate 100% only starting next year. Greetings and satisfaction for how the job has been done were the first exiting remarks coming from Houston to cosmonauts' headphones. It wasn't an easy work; in fact it required an overtime from the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 34769
Rome, Italy, 10/15/2002 13:47
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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