The US space shuttle Atlantis has landed in California after an extended 13-day mission to rejuvenate the Hubble Space Telescope.The shuttle touched down at the Edwards Air Force base on Sunday at 8.39am (1539GMT) after two days of bad weather prevented landing attempts at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida."It was a thrill from start to finish," Scott Altman, the commander of Atlantis, said.Altman and pilot Greg Johnson began the hour-long glide back to Earth by firing Atlantis' twin-braking rockets to leave orbit.The craft eventually drifted down to the base's main landing strip, touching down at a speed of roughly 400kph."Now we can declare this mission a total success," Ed Weiler, Nasa's head of space science, told a news conference.
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