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After an end-of-mission landing on Runway 15 of KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility aboard orbiter Endeavour at 10:53:29 p.m. EST, STS-88 Mission Specialist Nancy J. Currie (left) and Pilot Frederick W. "Rick" Sturckow (right) walk under the orbiter to greet well-wishers. Also on board were Commander Robert D. Cabana and Mission Specialists Jerry L. Ross, James H. Newman and Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, a Russian cosmonaut. On the 4.6-million-mile, nearly 12-day flawless mission, Endeavour carried the U.S.-built Unity connecting module to begin construction of the International Space Station. The crew successfully mated Unity with the Russian-built Zarya control module during three space walks. With this mission, Ross completed seven space walks totaling 44 hours and 9 minutes, more than any other American space walker. Newman moved into third place for U.S. space walks with a total of 28 hours and 27 minutes on four excursions