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Shuttle lands in California

Published: June 19, 2002 at 2:38 PM

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 19 (UPI) -- Ferrying home the new U.S. space endurance champs, shuttle Endeavour touched down at NASA's backup landing site in California at 1:58 p.m. ET on Wednesday after waiting out three days of poor weather in Florida. Dan Bursch, Carl Walz and their International Space Station Expedition Four commander Yuri Onufrienko have been in orbit for 196 days.

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