For NASA’s final 2009 mission to the International Space Station, the weather cooperates and Atlantis heads to the space station hauling two large pallets of equipment to pave the way for the final build out of the international space outpost.
– The space shuttle Atlantis rumbled off the launching pad Nov. 16 on a
flawless launch to the ISS (International Space Station). With near
perfect weather — a rarity for recent NASA launch attempts — Atlantis
departed on time at 2:28 p.m. for the 11-day mission to the space
station.

The miss…