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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1996  (10:18 AM EST)

KSC Public Affairs Contact: Bruce Buckingham (fax 407-867-2692)
E-mail: Bruce.Buckingham-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov


MISSION: STS-80 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY-3 (image) and ORFEUS-SPAS-2 (image)
FLIGHT DAY 19 -- LANDING DAY

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Shuttle Landing Facility
LAUNCH DATE/TIME: November 19 at 2:55.47 p.m. EST
KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: December 7 at 6:49 a.m. EST
MISSION DURATION: 17 days, 15 hours, 54 minutes
CREW: Cockrell, Rominger, Jernigan, Jones, Musgrave
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 219 statute miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: The orbiter Columbia landed at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility
runway 33 on the first opportunity today at 6:49 a.m. EST. With
today’s landing, mission STS-80 lasted a record breaking 17 days, 15
hours, 54 minutes, surpassing the previous endurance record from
mission STS-79 by about 18 hours. Landing occurred about 12 minutes
prior to sunrise at KSC and according to flight specifications, it is
considered a daytime landing.

	About an hour after touchdown, the five members of the STS-80
crew departed the Shuttle Landing Facility and were taken to their
crew quarters for post-mission medical examinations and visits with
their families. The crew will remain in Florida tonight and return to
their home in Houston tomorrow.

		The crew of mission STS-80 are: Commander Ken
Cockrell; Pilot Kent Rominger; and Mission Specialists Tamara
Jernigan, Thomas Jones and Story Musgrave.

MISSION  ELAPSED  TIMES  AND  LANDING  TIMES

								
			MET		EST
MAIN GEAR TOUCHDOWN	17:15:53:26  	6:49:05 a.m.
NOSE GEAR TOUCHDOWN	17:15:53:40 	6:49:19 a.m.
WHEELS STOP		17:15:54:28	6:50:07 a.m.


	Columbia traveled 7,043,950 miles and landed on orbit 279.
This was Columbia’s 8th landing at KSC and the 33rd overall at KSC in
the history of the Shuttle program.

	Now that Columbia is on the ground, preparations will be made
to tow the orbiter to Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1 for
post-flight deservicing and preparations for its next mission,
STS-83, set for launch in March.
	
	Early next week, the payload bay doors will be opened and
troubleshooting will begin on the problem with the airlock hatch,
which failed to open on orbit.

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