rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) (11/06/85)
Space shuttle Challenger touched down at Edwards Air Force Base in California today (6 November 1985) at 17:45 GMT (09:45 PST), seven days and 45 minutes after it lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Spacelab D-1, as the mission was also called, was pronounced to be extremely successful with no major problems in any of the orbiter's systems. This success was almost matched by the 75 or so experiments carried within the European Space Agency Spacelab module. Mission commander Henry Hartsfield was to test a new nose wheel steering system upon landing today to replace the differential braking technique that has been used on all shuttle landings in the past. There is no word yet on how well that test went. -- Roger Noe ihnp4!riccb!rjnoe