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KSC-02pd0266
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — During a post-flight walk around orbiter Columbia at the Shuttle Landing Facility, STS-109 Pilot Duane Carey gingerly checks the heat of the nose cone. The crew returned to Earth after an 11-day mission servicing the Hubble Space Telescope. Wheel stop occurred on orbit 165 at 4:33:09 a.m. EST. Main gear touchdown occurred at 4:31:52 a.m. and nose wheel touchdown at 4:32:02. Rollout time was 1 minute, 17 seconds.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-02pd0266. NASA/KSC, 2002-03-12. Public domain. ID: KSC-02pd0266.