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    LOS ANGELES, June 22 (Xinhua) -- The Space Shuttle Atlantis safely landed at the Edwards Air Force Base north of Los Angeles on Friday after successfully installing new equipment on the International Space Station.

    The shuttle touched down at 12:49 p.m. local time after being diverted from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida because of bad weather there.

    The shuttle was originally scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center Thursday, but bad weather prompted NASA to scrub the landing.

    Weather conditions turned out to be favorable in the landing area in California despite earlier concerns about the possibility of excessively strong winds in the Mojave Desert.