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Date Posted: 13:18:03 06/19/02 Wed
Author: gmike
Subject: Space Shuttle Endeavour Lands Safely in California

EWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (Reuters) - Space shuttle Endeavour landed safely in California on Wednesday, bringing home the record-setting crew of the International Space Station after more than six months on the orbiting research outpost.

After bad weather foiled three days of attempts to land in Florida, NASA brought Endeavour to Earth on a sunny day at its backup landing strip at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The shuttle touched down just before 2 p.m. EDT.

The landing ended a longer-than-expected mission for U.S. astronauts Daniel Bursch and Carl Walz, who along with their Russian commander Yury Onufrienko spent 196 days in space, most of it in orbit on the space station.

The Americans set a new U.S. single-flight endurance record, beating astronaut Shannon Lucid, whose mission to the Russian Mir space station in 1996 lasted 188 days. The world record of 438 days, set by Russian Valery Polyakov on Mir in 1994-95, was not threatened.

The Endeavour mission also saw the shuttle astronauts deliver a new crew and tons of supplies to the space station and perform three spacewalks, including one to replace a faulty wrist joint on the station's robotic arm.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=P0KESPRFQAYQMCRBAEKSFEYKEEATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=1109930

Not alot of good news this afternoon since overseas but with
Shuttle landing safety at least they one thing bright spot.

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Re: Space Shuttle Endeavour Lands Safely in California -- Erin, 13:44:31 06/19/02 Wed
- I watched it live on the internet 2 hours ago -- Hurray for the internet!!, 14:12:22 06/19/02 Wed