KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-108 crew wave to the crowd as they head for the van to transport them back to crew quarters. The crew completed their mission with a successful landing on Runway 15 of the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility. The mission had an elapsed time of 11 days, 19 hours and 35 minutes. Main gear touchdown occurred at 12 55 10 EST (17 55 10 GMT), nose gear touchdown at 12 55 23 (17 55 23 GMT) , wheel stop at 12 56 13 (17 56 13 GMT). Rollout distance was 8,941 feet. Endeavour carried both the mission crew and the Expedition 3 crew - Commander Frank Culbertson


KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-108 crew wave to the crowd as they head for the van to transport them back to crew quarters. The crew completed their mission with a successful landing on Runway 15 of the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility. The mission had an elapsed time of 11 days, 19 hours and 35 minutes. Main gear touchdown occurred at 12 55 10 EST (17 55 10 GMT), nose gear touchdown at 12 55 23 (17 55 23 GMT) , wheel stop at 12 56 13 (17 56 13 GMT). Rollout distance was 8,941 feet. Endeavour carried both the mission crew and the Expedition 3 crew - Commander Frank Culbertson and cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin - who returned to Earth after 129 days in space on the Space Station. STS-108 was the 12th mission to the International Space Station. This mission was the 107th flight in the Shuttle program and the 17th flight for the orbiter. The landing is the 57th at KSC in the history of the program


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