SPACE SHUTTLE ORBITER 099 CHALLENGER 51-B LANDING

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SPACE SHUTTLE ORBITER 099 CHALLENGER 51-B LANDING

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UNEDITED FILM REPORT: Landing of National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA) space base shuttle at Kennedy Space Center, CapeCanaveral, Florida, with crew including flight commander Marine Col. RobertF. Overmyer; pilot Air Force Lt. Col. Frederick D. Gregory; missionspecialists Don L. Lind, Norman E. Thagard and William E. Thornton; andpayload specialists Lodewijk van den Berg of EG&G Corporation and Taylor G.Wang of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Several angles of Challengerapproaching, landing, taxiing and parking.

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