This Week @NASA

Carrying a six-astronaut crew - STS-132 Commander Ken Ham, Pilot Tony Antonelli and Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, Steve Bowen, Mike Good and Piers Sellers - space shuttle Atlantis concluded its final flight, a 12-day trip to the International Space Station, with a smooth landing at the Kennedy Space Center.
Atlantis has visited the International Space Station eleven times, delivering hardware that has included the United States' Destiny Laboratory and Europe's Columbus module.
Students from community colleges in 28 states and Puerto Rico had an out-of-this-world experience at the Johnson Space Center. As the guests of NASA, seventy-six participants teamed up in fictitious companies to design and develop robotic space rovers for the exploration of alien worlds.
A new, advanced instrument designed to shed more light on the mysteries of the sun was prepared for shipment to its launch site. SUMI, the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation, is targeted to liftoff on a sounding rocket from White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico on June 8.
Space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 crew members were heartily welcomed to Headquarters by its employees.
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, has conducted its 'First Light' mission, producing this composite infrared image of Jupiter.
Eleven years ago, space shuttle Discovery became the first orbiter to dock to the International Space Station on STS-96.

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