81.   The landing site was ringed with helicopters and surrounded by medical experts and technicians.

82.   The search helicopter reached the landing site, and the crew had emerged and were undergoing their first medical checkup, an announcement on the Mission Control loudspeaker said.

83.   The possibility the weather could deteriorate tomorrow prompted NASA officials to activate Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., as a secondary landing site.

84.   The possibility the weather could deteriorate on Tuesday prompted NASA officials to activate Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., as a secondary landing site.

85.   Their return could be postponed by a band of showers that might come too close to the Kennedy Space Center, the landing site in Florida.

86.   The weather at the backup landing site in California, meanwhile, is marginal until Tuesday.

87.   The weather at the backup landing site in Southern California, though, looks good all week.

88.   The wives of Dezhurov and Tyurin also were at the landing site, but not their daughters, who remained home in Russia.

89.   Wiercinski said the pilot apparently failed to see holes in the ground at the landing site due to darkness and dust.

90.   Five minutes later hundreds of flares were dropped by parachute to mark out the landing sites.