- VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
- LOCATION: Shuttle Landing Facility
- OFFICIAL KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: June 2 at 6:06:24 p.m. EDT
- OFFICIAL MIR DOCKING DATE/TIME: June 4 at about 12:58 p.m. EDT
- OFFICIAL MIR UNDOCKING DATE/TIME: June 8 at 12:01 p.m. EDT
- OFFICIAL KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: June 12 at 2 p.m. EDT
- MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 19 hours and 54 minutes
- CREW: Precourt, Gorie, Lawrence, Chang-Diaz, Kavandi, Ryumin, Thomas (down)
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
 FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1998 (5:26 PM EDT) Landing Day  STS-91 -- 9TH AND FINAL MIR DOCKING, SPACEHAB-SM, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)
NOTE: The orbiter Discovery returned to Earth today landing on KSC's runway 15 at 2 p.m. EDT. Today's landing concludes the 9th and final Shuttle/Mir docking mission and returns astronaut Andrew Thomas home after more than four months onboard the Russian outpost. Clear weather conditions at KSC supported flight controllers' decision to land Discovery on the first of two opportunities. This was the 44th KSC landing in Shuttle Program history and 15th consecutive KSC landing. The orbiter landed on orbit 155 having traveled 3.8 million statute miles. The STS-91 crew will spend the night at KSC and depart for their homes in Houston, TX tomorrow afternoon. Following SPACEHAB destow activities on the runway, Discovery will be towed to Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2 arriving at about 11 p.m. 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." Status reports and other NASA publications are available on the World Wide Web at: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/kscpao.htm Information about the countdown and mission can be accessed electronically via the Internet at: http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/ and at http://shuttle.nasa.gov/ |