Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Biggs Army Airfield

I could not get any closer to the shuttle than about 3/4 of a mile ( rough guess ) they keep the thing parked way back from everybody !

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ElPasoTimes
EL PASO -- U.S. space shuttle Atlantis, riding atop a modified 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, landed at Biggs Army Airfield shortly after 11:15 a.m. Monday.

Atlantis, which landed May 24 at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a 5.3 million mile journey in space, is headed to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

"The pair will fly to Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas and spend the night there before resuming the cross-country trip tomorrow," according to a NASA news release.

NASA officials said that while in the region, Atlantis will conduct a flyover of the White Sands test facility.

The astronauts aboard the shuttle recently finished a 13-day trip in space to repair the Hubble space telescope.

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