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The orbiter Endeavour (OV-105) returns to Florida following a ten-day stay in space. Mission STS- 77 was scheduled to come to a close with a touchdown on Runway 33 of KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:09 a.m. EDT, May 29, on the first landing opportunity of the day. On board Endeavour for Mission STS-77 are Commander John H. Casper; Pilot Curtis L. Brown Jr.; and Mission Specialists Andrew S. W. Thomas, Daniel W. Bursch, Mario Runco Jr. and Marc Garneau, who represents the Canadian Space Agency. Among the payloads the crew worked with were the SPACEHAB- 4 module; the Spartan 207 deployable carrier which held the Inflatable Antenna Experiment (IAE) that was deployed during the flight; and the Technology Experiments for Advancing Missions in Space (TEAMS).