U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis, atop a modified Boeing 747, is towed after landing at the Kennedy Space Center 03 July, 2007 in Florida. Atlantis, having completed a 14-day construction mission to the International Space Station, was forced to land in California 22 June rather than in Florida due to bad weather. NASA workers will now begin preparing the spaceship for its next flight in December, when it is due to ferry Europe's Columbus research laboratory module to the space station. NASA needs to finish building the space station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations, before the shuttles are retired in 2010.

一架改裝過的波音747背上扛著太空梭亞特蘭提斯號，7月3日安全降落佛羅里達州甘迺迪太空中心後正要拖走。亞特蘭提斯號完成在國際太空站14天的營建任務後返航，6月22日因天候不住由佛州改迫降加州。太空總署工作人員現在將開始準備這艘太空梭預定12月進行的下次飛行任務，屆時，亞特蘭提斯號將運送歐洲哥倫布號太空研究艙到太空站。太空總署必須在2010年太空梭退役前完成太空站的建造工作，太空站是一項16國參與的計畫，總共斥資1000億美元。