Atlantis docks with space station

From: China Daily | Date: September 12, 2006 | Copyright information

Space shuttle Atlantis docked with the international space station yesterday, arriving with the first addition to the orbiting space lab in more than 3 1/2 years.

Atlantis commander Brent Jett eased the space shuttle into the space station's docking port where latches automatically fastened the two spacecraft together at 6:48 am EDT (1048 GMT). The nearly two- day trip from Earth ended about 350 kilometres above the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean.

"Pretty good," astronaut Jeff Williams radioed Mission Control from inside the space station.

With both vehicles moving at 28,160 kph, the ...

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