Shuttle Atlantis docks with station (AP)

by Populux | September 11, 2006 at 04:36 am
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis docked with the international space station Monday, arriving with the first addition to the orbiting space lab in more than 3 1/2 years. Atlantis commander Brent Jett eased the space shuttle into the space station's docking port where latches automatically fastened the two spacecraft together at 6:48 a.m. EDT. The nearly two-day trip from Earth ended about 220 miles above the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean. "Pretty good," astronaut Jeff Williams ...

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