NASA officials say expected rain showers may delay Thursday's launch of the space shuttle Atlantis whose mission is to deliver a new science lab to the International Space Station. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports.

Atlantis is on its way to Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the 14-day successful mission to International Space Station.

Space shuttle Atlantis descended to a smooth landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., concluding a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station.

Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts are scheduled to be back home on Thursday, but forecasters predict bad weather so the landing maybe delayed.

Atlantis astronauts have successfully installed solar arrays, they have repaired the Russian computer, and now they are coming back to the earth, hopefully.

Initially Atlantis' Mission was scheduled for eleven days, but two more days were added, because astronauts needed spacewalks.

While Atlantis were unfurling two new solar arrays at international space station, a Russian navigation computer hang up and caused a mass of problems to the crew.

Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on Friday at 7:38 p.m. Eastern time to continue the building of International Space Station. Its flame brightened clear evening sky and left dense columns of smoke.

Atlantis shuttle launch time is on June 8, at 7:38 p.m. EDT. The website of NASA (nasa.gov) provides live coverage of Atlantis shuttle launch.