Why is the Shuttle Atlantis being flown back to Florida?”
Space shuttle Atlantis headed home Monday morning, riding piggyback atop a Boeing 747 for the trip from Edwards Air Force Base in Californina to the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA had earlier postponed the journey due to bad weather. Thunderstorms and high winds prevented plans to begin flying Atlantis back home early Sunday. The $1.8 million ferry flight began Monday at 11:07 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), mid-morning local time in California. Atlantis landed in California on May 24 after foul weather thwarted repeated attempts to return to its home port at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., following a successful mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
