The drag chute glows in the lights illuminating Atlantis as it touched down on Runway 33 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 21, concluding mission STS-115.

Aboard were Commander Brent Jett, Pilot Christopher Ferguson, and Mission Specialists Joseph Tanner, David Burbank, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steven MacLean, who represents the Canadian Space Agency.

During the mission, the astronauts completed three spacewalks to attach the P3/P4 integrated truss structure to the International Space Station. Atlantis traveled 4.9 million miles, landing on orbit 187. Mission elapsed time was 11 days, 19 hours, six minutes.

This was the 15th night landing at KSC and the 23rd night landing overall.

---SPACE.com Staff

Credit: NASA/Mike Kerley