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Landing here. what they are hoping also is that as the morning goes on, they're hoping that this strong florida morning sun here in this part of southwest florida will begin to burn off this fog and hopefully the storm showers that we're seeing off the ocean will remain that way off the ocean and will not impede or become part of the trajectory, if you will, for the shuttle to come in. this crew has been up there now for 15 days because this landing was delayed already one day. they have a chance to land at edwards air force base in southern california at 9:01 but nasa is hoping they come here...

Houston. >> it's been a pleasure. >> we're not going back to the moon. the president made that clear. so i guess we've -- >> we're not going back to the moon. we're going to the space place and guitterez. >> hey, chris. >> good morning, guys. what's amazing for these shuttle launches, i've covered a few shuttle launches from the vantage point of mission control at the johnson space center. to be here at the space coast at the kennedy space center and feel that vibration, the launch pad 39a where discovery took off from is three miles from we are. you can still feel it and your chest is poundin...

Shut down the orbiter's systems. make sure, for example, the rocket powered hydraulic pumps have terminated their operations safely and to be able to power down the vehicle and once that's complete at the same time, they're opening the hatch, medical personnel come on board, two technicians to unstrap you and help the astronauts out of the hatch. about 45 minutes after landing is typically when the first crew member emerges. >> come on, you've been on the space shuttle a couple of times. you know those guys are high fiving each other but at the same time, it's like they're giving each other a ...

How you can feel so heavy when u used to live on this program and you have to get used to that again. >> we'll talk to dr. manny alvarez in just a moment. as we look at the atlantis live screen right at the space place, tell us where -- we understand that atlantis is going to stay there at the kennedy space center for the rest of time. where are the other shuttles going? >> the enterprise, which preceded all of the other shuttles, it didn't actually orbit the earth. it basically just proved that it could actually land and glide to a final stop, that will go on to the intrepid on the southwest ...