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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach, Director General for Operations and Assets Benoit Marcotte and Canadian Space Agency President Laurier Boisvert stand underneath Endeavour, which has just returned from mission STS-118. On the mission, the crew installed a new gyroscope, an external spare parts platform and another truss segment to the expanding station. On landing, Endeavour's main gear touched down at 12:32:16 p.m. EDT. Nose gear touchdown was at 12:32:29 p.m. and wheel stop was at 12:33:20 p.m. Endeavour traveled nearly 5.3 million miles, landing on orbit 201. This was the 65th landing of an orbiter at Kennedy. STS-118 was the 119th space shuttle flight, the 22nd flight to the station, the 20th flight for Endeavour and the second of four missions planned for 2007. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett