Space Shuttle Atlantis eventually made it in on Friday 22nd when I was out so I was unable to watch the landing live.

Atlantis landed on runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in California due to continued bad weather at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

Shuttle Atlantis landing at Edwards AFB

This, of course, means that Atlantis will need to be airlifted by the specially converted Boeing 747 SCA across the country so it can be delivered to the Space Shuttle Processing facility.

In passing I found a picture of one of the mount points on the SCA for the shuttle with a little note to the technicians:

Shuttle SCA mounting point note to technicians.

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