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Bad weather keeps shuttle from landing, may touch down in Calif.

May. 24, 2009
Stormy weather prevented space shuttle Atlantis from landing on its first try Sunday, and NASA directed the astronauts to take an extra swing around the world before coming down, quite possibly to California.
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