Atlantis leaves the International Space Station

Should land on Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center * The computer glitch at the space station has been fixed

01:50 The Atlantis crew members on mission STS-117 and the 15th crew gather for a group photo during a joint press conference on the International Space Station shortly before Atlantis leaves the space station. About half an hour ago (01:23 Israel time) the astronauts closed the hatches between the spacecraft. Atlantis is supposed to detach from the station at 10:42 local time (17:42 Israel time) on Tuesday and land in Florida on Thursday..
You can read about the activities carried out by the astronauts in the space station in the previous news on the subject

In other activities, the space station's flight controllers activated the solar collector on the S3/S4 component and tested the rotation system by which the collector follows the sun. During the morning, an automatic experiment will be carried out to track the sun. NASA also stated that the space station's computers, which broke down during the stay of the Atlantis team members on the station, returned to normal operation after a few days.