Space Shuttle Atlantis glided to a landing this morning at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., concluding a successful mission to resume construction of the International Space Station. Atlantis and the six-member STS-115 crew spent nearly 12 days in space.

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Mission control gave Space Shuttle Atlantis the green light to suit up for deorbit burn.

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Shuttle Atlantis cleared for deorbit and to return home Thursday morning

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This picture of unidentified possible small debris was recorded with a digital still camera by astronaut Daniel Burbank onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis around 11 a.m. (CDT) today. Engineers do not believe this to be the same object seen in video taken by shuttle TV cameras earlier in the day.

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The STS-115 crew completed scheduled inspections of Space Shuttle Atlantis’ heat shield this morning. The astronauts used cameras on the shuttle’s robotic arm to conduct the scans.

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Bad weather at Kennedy Space Center and mystery objects delays Atlantis return to Earth on Wednesday. The shuttle crew told to use the robotic arm with its elbow camera to survey the shuttle

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Discovery STS-116 astronauts busy in shuttle training simulators, for their mission to deliver and attach the International Space Station's third port truss segment, the P5 truss. It is scheduled for December 2006 and will exchange one member the station's Expedition 13 and Expedition 14 crews. It will be flown by Space Shuttle Discovery.

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After a busy week of challenging construction work, the shuttle Atlantis and her crew undocked from the International Space Station Sunday to begin their journey home. Landing is set for 5:57 a.m. EDT Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis astronauts spread a second set of wings for the International Space Station today. The new solar arrays were fully extended at 8:44 a.m. EDT.

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The STS-115 astronauts concluded a busy day that featured the mission’s second spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station’s P3/P4 truss for operation. They will see the fruits of their labor Thursday with the deployment of the solar arrays attached to the newly installed truss.

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