- VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
- LOCATION: Shuttle Landing Facility
- OFFICIAL KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: April 17, 1998 at 2:19 p.m. EDT
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: May 3 at 12:09 p.m. EDT
- CREW: Searfoss, Altman, Linnehan, Williams, Hire, Buckey, Pawelczyk
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 150 nautical miles/39 degrees
 SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1998 (2:43 PM EDT)  STS-90 -- NEUROLAB
Landing Day NOTE: The Space Shuttle Columbia glided to a successful landing on runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility today at 12:09 p.m. EDT. Neurolab scientists and their research teams gathered at KSC to begin preliminary ground processing of the valuable data gleaned from STS-90’s nervous system experiments. With excellent weather conditions at KSC, flight controllers opted to bring Columbia and her seven-member flight crew home on the first of two landing opportunities, executing the deorbit burn at about 11:11 a.m. today. At the flight’s conclusion, the orbiter and crew had traveled 6.375 million statute miles and completed 256 orbits of the Earth. Columbia’s 13th KSC landing marked the 43rd KSC landing in Shuttle program history. Following routine orbiter safing, servicing and payload destow activities, Columbia will begin its transfer from the SLF to Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 at about 10:15 p.m. and will arrive in the OPF at about 11:30 p.m. NOSE GEAR TOUCHDOWN -- 15:21:50:13 MET / 12:09:13 P.M. EDT WHEELS STOP -- 15:21:50:58 MET / 12:09:58 P.M. EDT 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/ |