LANDING PRIOR TO  MAIN GEAR TOUCHDOWN

The orbiter Endeavour (OV-105) returns to Florida following a ten-day
stay in space. Mission STS-77 was scheduled to come to a close with a
touchdown on Runway 33 of KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:09
a.m. EDT, May 29, on the first landing opportunity of the day.  On
board Endeavour for Mission STS-77 are Commander John H. Casper; Pilot
Curtis L. Brown Jr.; and Mission Specialists Andrew S. W. Thomas,
Daniel W. Bursch, Mario Runco Jr. and Marc Garneau, who represents the
Canadian Space Agency.  Among the payloads the crew worked with were
the SPACEHAB-4 module; the Spartan 207 deployable carrier which held
the Inflatable Antenna Experiment (IAE) that was deployed during the
flight; and the Technology Experiments for Advancing Missions in Space
(TEAMS).

LANDING -- DURING MAIN GEAR TOUCHDOWN AND LATER

The orbiter Endeavour (OV-105) returns to Florida following a ten-day
stay in space.  Main gear touchdown on Runway 33 of KSC's Shuttle
Landing Facility occurred at 7:09:18 a.m. EDT, May 29. On board
Endeavour for Mission STS-77 are Commander John H. Casper; Pilot
Curtis L. Brown Jr.; and Mission Specialists Andrew S. W. Thomas,
Daniel W. Bursch, Mario Runco Jr. and Marc Garneau, who represents the
Canadian Space Agency.  Among the payloads the crew worked with were
the SPACEHAB-4 module, filled with a variety of microgravity research
experiments; the Spartan 207 deployable carrier which held the
Inflatable Antenna Experiment (IAE) that was deployed during the
flight; and the Technology Experiments for Advancing Missions in Space
(TEAMS), a suite of four experiments.  The highly successful mission
marks Endeavour's last flight in space for some time to come.  The
orbiter is slated to undergo an Orbiter Maintenance Down Period
(OMDP), during which regularly scheduled checkouts and maintenance
will be performed as well as modifications to prepare OV-105 for its
upcoming role in on-orbit assembly of the International Space Station.
Endeavour's next mission is STS-88 in December 1997, the first launch
of U.S. hardware for assembly of the station.