MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-67 Status Report # 30

Friday, March 17,  8:00 a.m. CST

Endeavour and its seven-member crew is scheduled to return home this
afternoon on one of three landing opportunities available at Florida's
Kennedy Space Center.  Poor weather conditions forecast for landing,
however, may prevent today's scheduled landing.

The landing opportunities are 1:53 p.m. on orbit 246; 3:30 p.m. on
orbit 247 and 5:07 p.m. on orbit 248.  All times are central. In each
case, the deorbit ignition of the Shuttle's orbital maneuvering system
engines would occur about an hour prior to landing.

In anticipation of the return home, crew members overnight deactivated
payloads and stowed cabin equipment used throughout the mission.  With
no technical issues being worked, the entry team arrived on console in
the Mission Control Center about 7 a.m. to oversee the final hours of
Endeavour's already record-setting mission.

The weather forecast calls for scattered to broken clouds at various
levels in the area of the landing site with a chance of rain and
thunderstorms associated with a storm front that has moved into the
Florida peninsula.

Earlier this morning aboard the Russian Space Station Mir, five
cosmonauts and an astronaut talked to Russian Prime Minister Victor
Chernomyrdin and discussed activities aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Astronaut Norman Thagard, a member of the Mir-18 crew which arrived at
the space station yesterday, compared the Soyuz launch with that of a
Shuttle liftoff and commented on the spaciousness of his home for the
next three months.  The six crew members will participate in a news
conference at 9 a.m. central time Monday, March 20.

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