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Photo Gallery: Atlantis' re-entry seen from station Astronaut Mike Fossum aboard the International Space Station snapped these remarkable images of space shuttle Atlantis as it descended into Earth's atmosphere on the way to landing at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday morning. The blazing heat of re-entry leaves a trail of hot plasma behind the shuttle, a phenomenon visible in the photos. Cred

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Rocket: Zenit 3SL Payload: NSS 8 Date: Jan. 30, 2007 Window: 2322-2359 GMT (6:22-6:59 p.m. EST) Site: Equator, 154° West, Pacific Ocean Broadcast: AMC 5, Transponder 8, Ku-band, Digital, 79° West Premium video content for our Spaceflight Now Plus subscribers. Apollo 1 service On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that took the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, a r