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    • CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, June 21 (AFP) Jun 21, 2007
     NASA on Thursday abandoned the first attempt to land the Atlantis space shuttle as it hit bad weather on its return to Earth from a 13-day mission.

    Rains spread over some 50 kilometers (30 miles) around the Florida landing area prohibited the shuttle's landing, mission control in Houston, Texas, said.

    The US space agency said a second attempt at landing the shuttle and its seven crew might be made at the Kennedy Space Center at 1930 GMT Thursday.




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