Shuttle Atlantis landed successfully in Florida, said the site of NASA. Currently, the team was given orders to withdraw special protective suits and landing.

Atlantis departed the ISS to November 16, 2009. During the time spent in orbit, astronauts made three EVA. The crew installed two large platform with spare parts outside the space complex. On platforms accommodated about 15 tons of materials to be used when the shuttles will stop its work.

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Air Force, with NASA leading the development of orbital plane, was appointed its first test flight in April 2010. This writes the magazine Air & Space. According to plans made public on the plane will be launched on carrier rocket Atlas V, launched from Cape Canaveral.

As expected, during the first orbital test flight of the aircraft, developed from the 1950's, produced test all onboard systems, including management. Pilotless aircraft developed in different periods under the names of Orbital Spaceplane, Space Maneuver Vehicle, Orbital Test Vehicle, X-37 and X-40 flight will carry out fully offline.

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Probe "Kassyni" were able to discern the aurora on Saturn. This was reported in the press release on the project. With several hundred photos taken probe, scientists have assembled a small film, available here.

Aurora formed around the magnetic poles of planets, when charged particles of cosmic rays moving along the power lines of the magnetic field of the heavenly body reaches the atmosphere. Similar phenomena can be observed on Jupiter, Saturn, Earth and some other planets of the solar system.

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NASA astronauts completed the third and final EVA within Cruise shuttle Atlantis to the ISS.

As reported at NASA, astronauts Robert and Randy Bresnyk Setcher conducted in space five o'clock 42 minutes, completing work begun in the past two exits, including the installation of the experimental units outside the station.

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