Space Shuttle Atlantis lands with its drag chute deployed on runway 22 at Edwards, CA, to complete the STS-66 mission dedicated to the third flight of the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-3 (ATLAS-3), part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth program.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis lands with its drag chute deployed on runway 22 at Edwards, CA, to complete the STS-66 mission dedicated to the third flight of the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-3 (ATLAS-3), part of NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth program. The astronauts also deployed and retrieved a free-flying satellite designed to study the middle and lower thermospheres and perform a series of experiments covering life sciences research and microgravity processing.
Shuttle Crew: Commander Donald R. McMonagle; Pilot Curtis L. Brown Jr.; Payload Commander Ellen Ochoa; and Mission Specialists Scott E. Parazynski, Joseph R. Tanner, and Jean-Francois Clervoy. November 14, 1994 NASA / Photo