The main landing gear of Space Shuttle Columbia touches on at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 11:39 EDT. The STS-40 mission was the first ever devoted solely to life sciences. Image #: Date: June 14, 1991

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Keywords: columbia, shuttle, space, spacelab, sts-40