Medical Testing Done, Atlantis Set for Return
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HOUSTON — Astronauts and cosmonauts conducted a final round of medical experiments Thursday while crew mates prepared the space shuttle Atlantis for its return from a historic U.S.-Russian docking mission.
Atlantis, launched June 27 with five astronauts and a new two-cosmonaut crew for the Russian space station Mir, was scheduled to land at 7:55 a.m. PDT today at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center with eight aboard, including astronaut Norman E. Thagard and cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov, who spent 115 days aboard Mir.
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