Shuttle Atlantis, mission accomplished, leaves station

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station on Sunday, wrapping up a week of assembly work to install a new Russian module, a backup Ku-band antenna, six new solar array batteries, and more than three tons of other equipment and supplies.
With pilot Dominic "Tony" Antonelli at the controls, the shuttle's payload bay docking mechanism disengaged its counterpart on the space station's forward port at 11:22 a.m. EDT as the two spacecraft sailed 220 miles above the southern Indian Ocean southwest of Perth, Australia.

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