Shuttle Atlantis checked for damage (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Fri, 02/08/2008 - 3:08pm

This image provided by NASA shows the space shuttle Atlantis lifting off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center,Thursday Feb. 7, 2008 in Cape Canaveral, Fla..<br /><br />Atlantis' seven member crew is on a 11-day mission to deliver Columbus, a laboratory module built by the European Space Agency, to the international space station.<br /><br />(AP Photo/NASA - Jim Grossmann)AP - Atlantis' astronauts spent their first full day in orbit Friday scrupulously checking their ship for any launch day damage, as they steered ever closer to the international space station.




 

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