STS-129 - Smooth as glass

A space shuttle mission is an immensely complicated affair and to have a mission with few, if any, issues from start to finish is rare. STS-129 was such a mission. Launched right on time, accomplished everything that it was supposed to and then landed right on scheduled. To slips, scrubs or delays, (outside of the slight delay on the last spacewalk of the mission). Mission managers William Gerstnmaier, Mike Moses and Mike Leinbach had little to talk about in the post-flight press conference held shortly after Atlantis touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle-Landing-Facility, (SLF) at 9:44 a.m. EST. More

(Source: Examiner.com - Nov 28)