Mission Specialist Ellen Ochoa holding her son Wilson Miles-Ochoa leaves the bus at the Cape Canaveral Air Station Skid Strip.

STS-96 Mission Specialist Ellen Ochoa (Ph.D.), holding her son, Wilson Miles-Ochoa , leaves the bus at the Cape Canaveral Air Station Skid Strip. The STS-96 crew members are preparing to return to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, after a successful 10-day mission to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. The crew landed June 6 at 2:02:43 a.m. EDT, in the 11th night landing at KSC. Other crew members also returning are Commander Kent V. Rominger, Pilot Rick D. Husband, and Mission Specialists Tamara Jernigan (Ph.D.), Daniel Barry (M.D., Ph.D.), Julie Payette (with the Canadian Space Agency) and Valery Ivanovich Tokarev (with the Russian Space Agency)