Stock Photo - 01/31/1998 __ The Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour touches down on Runway 15 of the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility SLF to complete the nearly nine_day STS_89 mission. Main gear touchdown was at 5:35:09 p.m. EST on Jan. 31, 1998. The wheels stopped at 5:36:19 EST, completing a total mission time of eight days, 19 hours, 48 minutes and four seconds. The 89th Space Shuttle mission was the 42nd and 13th consecutive landing of the orbiter at KSC, and STS_89 was the eighth of nine planned dockings of the Space Shuttle with the Russian Space Station Mir. STS_89 Mission Specialist Andrew Thomas, Ph.D., succeeded NASA astronaut and Mir 24 crew member David Wolf, M.D., who was on the Russian space station since late September 1997. Dr. Wolf returned to Earth on Endeavour with the remainder of the STS_89 crew, including Commander Terrence Wilcutt, Pilot Joe Edwards Jr., and Mission Specialists James Reilly, Ph.D., Michael Anderson, Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., and Salizhan Sharipov with the Russian Space Agency. Dr. Thomas is scheduled to remain on Mir until the STS_91 Shuttle mission returns in June 1998. In addition to the docking and crew exchange, STS_89 included the transfer of science, logistical equipment and supplies between the two orbiting spacecrafts