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(12/17/2001) -- Orbiter Endeavour slows to a stop on Runway 15 at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility as its drag chute slowly falls to the ground. Completing mission STS-108, Endeavour's main gear touchdown occurred at 12:55:10 p.m. EST (17:55:10 GMT); nose gear touchdown at 12:55:23 p.m. (17:55:23 GMT); wheel stop at 12:56:13 p.m. (17:56:13 GMT). Rollout distance was 8,941 feet. Endeavour carries both the mission crew and the Expedition 3 crew - Commander Frank Culbertson and cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin - who are returning to Earth after 129 days in space on the International Space Station. The landing is the 57th at KSC in the history of the program STS-108 was the 12th mission to the Space Station. This mission was the 107th flight in the Shuttle program and the 17th flight for the orbiter