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Web posted July 16, 1997
By Amy Joyner
The shuttle, piloted by Augusta native Lt. Cmdr. Susan Still, will be visible in the area about 6:42 a.m., 11 minutes before it lands.
Columbia will appear as either a moving pinpoint of light or a bright dot with a glowing trail arcing across the sky.
To find out exactly where to spot the shuttle, consult NASA's landing sightings Web site during the 24 hours before the landing. The Web site will have maps of the shuttle's flight path back to Earth and Kennedy Space Center. The web address is http://shuttle.nasa.gov/sts-94/landing/grtrack.
Lt. Cmdr. Still and six other astronauts end their 16-day STS-94 microgravity science laboratory mission at 6:53 a.m. Thursday, if the weather abides.
Augustans may watch the shuttle landing live on NASA-TV on Jones Intercable's channel 12 or on @ugusta The Augusta Chronicle online.
If the weather in Florida on Thursday morning isn't suitable for landing, the astronauts might land at Kennedy Space Center later in the day or fly to Edwards Air Force Base in California. They also could spend an additional day or two in orbit, then try to land again at Cape Canaveral.
The STS-94 crew first went to space together in April, but their mission ended after four days because a fuel cell that generates power for the shuttle was defective.
They are the only crew in 36 years of U.S. human spaceflight to fly together twice.
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