Live Landing Coverage

Orbiter: Endeavour
Shuttle Mission: STS-113
Date: December 7, 2002

Welcome to our landing coverage! Landing videos are available, as well as Pre-launch Day and Launch Day videos are also available.

Space Shuttle Endeavour made a perfect landing at 2:37:12 p.m. EST on Dec. 7 at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) after three days of wave-offs due to poor weather at KSC.

Landing Milestones
Information is projected and subject to change.

Deorbit Burn:	1:32 p.m. EST
Landing Site:	Runway 33
Main gear touchdown:	2:37:12 p.m. EST
Nose gear touchdown:	2:37:23 p.m. EST
Wheel stop:	2:38:25 p.m. EST
Mission duration:	13 days 18hrs, 58:38 min
Total number of orbits:	215
Mission miles logged:	5.74 million statute miles

Did you know?

Unlike launches for which a "go" for liftoff can be given within minutes of changing weather conditions during the launch window, the landing site must be chosen more than an hour before touchdown, when the deorbit burn takes place. A switch in sites usually can be made up to 90 minutes prior to landing.

Other Landing Facts | Live Countdown Coverage

Image: Montage of Vehicle Assembly Building with American Flag and shuttles landing.

Page Last Revised	Page & Curator Information
December 9, 2002	Online coverage by: Dennis Armstrong (NASA), Anna Heiney (IDI), Jeanne Ryba (NASA) Web Development: JBOSC Web Development Team Video Production: Chris Chamberland (Photobition) NASA Official: Dennis Armstrong (Dennis.Armstrong-1@ksc.nasa.gov) A Service of the NASA/Kennedy Space Center Roy D. Bridges, Director