The STS-80 astronauts look fit and at ease after returning from a record-setting 17-day, 16-hour stay in near-weightlessness. From left are Mission Specialist Thomas D. Jones; Commander Kenneth D. Cockrell; Mission Specialists Story Musgrave and Tamara E. Jernigan; and Pilot Kent V. Rominger. The orbiter Columbia returned to Earth on Runway 33 of KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility, with main gear touchdown occurring at 6:49:05 a.m. EST, Dec. 7.
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NASA
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The STS-80 astronauts look fit and at ease after returning from a record-setting 17-day, 16-hour stay in near-weightlessness. From left are Mission Specialist Thomas D. Jones; Commander Kenneth D. Cockrell; Mission Specialists Story Musgrave and Tamara E. Jernigan; and Pilot Kent V. Rominger. The orbiter Columbia returned to Earth on Runway 33 of KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility, with main gear touchdown occurring at 6:49:05 a.m. EST, Dec. 7.