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Touchdown at the Shuttle Landing Facility leave the Crew Transport Vehicle .

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NASA
Washington, DC, United States

Following touchdown at 12:04 p.m. EST at the Shuttle Landing Facility, the STS-95 crew leave the Crew Transport Vehicle where they are met by (left to right) a Spanish dignitary; Isao Uchida, president of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA); Center Director Roy Bridges; and NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin. The crew, from left to right, are Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. (shaking hands with Bridges); Pilot Steven W. Lindsey; Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., a senator from Ohio and one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts; Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski; Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson; Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA); and Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain, with the European Space Agency (ESA). The successful mission lasted nine days and included research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process

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  • Title: Touchdown at the Shuttle Landing Facility leave the Crew Transport Vehicle .
  • Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL
  • Owner: KSC
  • Album: cbabir
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