This image from NASA TV shows the Space Shuttle Atlant
doing it's fly around passing behind the Russian segment of the
International Space Station shortly after undocking from the
International Space Station early Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009.
The Poisk can be seen at right. The shuttle is scheduled to land
at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday morning. The (AP Photo/NASA)
Atlantis is coming back with an empty payload bay after delivering nearly 15 tons of pumps, storage tanks and other big spare parts to the space station, enough to keep the complex running for another five to 10 years. NASA wants the station well stocked so it can function long after the shuttles are retired next fall.
Returning from a three-month space station mission is Nicole Stott. She's already put in a request for a slice of New York-style pizza and some Coca-Cola with crushed ice in a plastic foam cup.
Astronaut Randolph Bresnik has been off the planet just 1 1/2 weeks, but missed his daughter's birth. Abigail Mae Bresnik was born Saturday night, just hours after his first spacewalk.
Bresnik said Thursday that he's thankful, this Thanksgiving, for his healthy daughter.
"Fortunately, she is just as beautiful as her mother," he said. "I always said, if our daughter got her looks and her brains, we'd be OK."
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