Discovery comes in for a perfect landing. Click on image for
full size Courtesy of NASA Shuttle-Mir Program Comes to a Close
News story originally written on June 13, 1998 and Pilot Gorie
brought the shuttle Discovery in for a perfect landing
yesterday. Discover touched down at 1:00 p.m. CDT on June 12,
1998. This ends the 11-day mission which included a 4-day
docking with the space station Mir. While docked with the space
station, Andy Thomas came onboard the shuttle for his ride home
to Earth after spending four and a half months on Mir.
Yesterday's landing is the end of an 812-day continuous U.S.
presence in space! There are no future plans for U.S.
involvement with the Russian space station, so Discovery's
landing is the official close to the Shuttle-Mir program. Shop
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