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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1996 (11:43 AM EDT) KSC Public Affairs Contact: Bruce Buckingham (fax 407-867-2692) E-mail: Bruce.Buckingham-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov MISSION: STS-78 -- LIFE AND MICROGRAVITY SPACELAB (LMS) Flight Day 18 - LANDING DAY VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 LOCATION: Shuttle Landing Facility OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE/TIME: June 20 at 10:49 a.m. (EDT) OFFICIAL KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 7 at 8:37 a.m. MISSION DURATION: 16 days, 21 hours, 48 minutes NOTE: Columbia landed at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility runway 33 on the first opportunity today at 8:37 a.m. EDT after traveling over 7 million miles in space on the longest Space Shuttle mission to date. Columbia landed on orbit 272 marking the 31st time the Shuttle has landed at KSC and the 8th landing at KSC for Columbia. MISSION ELAPSED TIMES AND LANDING TIMES MET EDT MAIN GEAR TOUCHDOWN 16:21:47.45 8:36.45 a.m. NOSE GEAR TOUCHDOWN 16:21:47.57 8:36.57 a.m. WHEELS STOP 16:21:48.30 8:37.30 a.m. Columbia will be towed to Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1 beginning at about 2:30 p.m. today and be spotted in the OPF at about 4 p.m.-- end -- For automatic e-mail subscriptions to this daily Shuttle status report or KSC originated press releases, send an Internet electronic mail message to: domo@news.ksc.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) type the words "subscribe shuttle-status" or "subscribe ksc-press-release" (do not use quotation marks). The system will reply with a confirmation via e-mail of each subscription. To remove your name from the list at any time, send an e-mail address to domo@news.ksc.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line), type (no quotes) "unsubscribe shuttle-status" or "unsubscribe ksc-press-release."