Shuttle Columbia returns with mixed results after 16 days

NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia returned to a perfect landing at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Friday, after a ragged 16-day mission that produced a wealth of microgravity science data but failed in a planned attempt to use a Spartan free-flyer in conjunction with a separate NASA satellite to study the...

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