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NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis is due to land today after a successful mission to the ISS.

Atlantis flew mission STS-117 to install the new S3/S4 Truss Segment.

An earlier minor rip in Atlantis’ thermal blanket which protects the orbiter during re-entry has been fixed during a space-walk.

Update: Due to bad weather at KSC the landing has been postponed. Atlantis is now projected to land on Friday 19:14BST(18:14 ZULU) at the preferred landing site of Kennedy Space Centre (Edwards AFB is the weather option)

You can watch the landing live on-line at NASA TV

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