WIKIARCHIVES.SPACE

(Left to right) STS-96 Mission Specialists Tamara E. Jernigan (Ph.D.) and Julie Payette, with the Canadian Space Agency, leave the bus at the Cape Canaveral Air Station Skid Strip where they will board a plane to return to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Other crew members also returning are Commander Kent V. Rominger, Pilot Rick D. Husband, and Mission Specialists Ellen Ochoa (Ph.D.), Daniel Barry (M.D., Ph.D.) and Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, with the Russian Space Agency. After a successful 10-day mission to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, the crew landed June 6 at 2:02:43 a.m. EDT, in the 11th night landing at KSC.