NASA Mission STS-122 Lands Safely

The space shuttle Atlantis landed safely today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Sorry I don’t have time to write about it in depth, I’m battling the flu and sitting upright to type this even is a chore. There was also a beautiful total lunar eclipse tonight, and if you were in North America, South America, Western Europe, or West Africa, you were in position to see it. Fortunately, here in Baltimore, the clouds cleared up in time to give us a flawless view. Here’s a couple of neat-o space pictures, you vultures. First up is one of the STS-122 astronauts on a spacewalk to install the European Space Agency’s Columbus laboratory module on the International Space Station. Second is a shot of the shuttle Atlantis deploying its drag chute as it lands on the runway at Kennedy today. Both images courtesy of piracy. Finally, we have a cool video that a Winnipeg-based eclipse viewer put together of shots from tonight’s show. By the way, you won’t get another chance to view a total lunar eclipse until December of 2010.