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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - Following the landing of mission STS-105, the crew poses with NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin under Space Shuttle Discovery on KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility runway 15. From left are Mission Specialists Daniel Barry and Patrick Forrester, Commander Scott "Doc" Horowitz, Administrator Goldin, and Pilot Frederick "Rick" Sturckow. Main gear touchdown was at 2:22:58 p.m. EDT; wheel stop, at 2:24:06 p.m. EDT. The 11-day, 21-hour, 12-minute STS-105 mission accomplished the goals set for the 11th flight to the International Space Station: swapout of the resident Station crew; delivery of equipment, supplies and scientific experiments; and installation of the Early Ammonia Servicer and heater cables for the S0 truss on the Station. Discovery traveled 4.3 million miles on its 30th flight into space, the 106th mission of the Space Shuttle program. Out of five missions in 2001, the landing was the first to occur in daylight at KSC.