Image:NASA-STS115Landing-KSC-06PD-2184.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikimedia Commons logo This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is attempting to create a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

[edit] Summary

Description

PHOTO NO: KSC-06PD-2184 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. – Concluding mission STS-115, Atlantis and her crew return to Kennedy Space Center and approach a landing before sunrise on Runway 33. Aboard are Commander Brent Jett, Pilot Christopher Ferguson, and Mission Specialists Joseph Tanner, David Burbank, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steven MacLean, who represents the Canadian Space Agency. During the mission, Tanner, McLean, Burbank and Piper completed three spacewalks to attach the P3/P4 integrated truss structure to the International Space Station. Main gear touchdown was at 6:21:30 a.m. EDT. Nose gear touchdown was at 6:21:36 a.m. and wheel stop was at 6:22:16 a.m. At touchdown -- nominally about 2,500 ft. beyond the runway threshold -- the orbiter is traveling at a speed ranging from 213 to 226 mph. Atlantis traveled 4.9 million miles, landing on orbit 187. Mission elapsed time was 11 days, 19 hours, six minutes This is the 15th night landing at KSC and the 23rd night landing overall. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Source

http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=30115
Date

09/21/2006
Author

NASA/Kim Shiflett
Permission

See #Licensing.
Other versions NASA Image of the Day at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_662.html

[edit] Licensing

Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy).

Warnings:

  • Use of NASA logos (which include the current "meatball" logo, the old "worm" logo, and the seal) is restricted.
  • Materials from the Hubble Space Telescope may be copyrighted if they do not explicitly come from the STScI. [1]
  • All materials created by the SOHO probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2]
  • Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted. [3]

The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../n/a/s/Image%7ENASA-STS115Landing-KSC-06PD-2184.jpg_5a89.html"