After completing a secret four-day mission, the space shuttle Atlantis landed safely here this afternoon.

The painting, which shows a row of trees, their jagged branches extending upward, recalls a four-day search-and-destroy mission.

Liftoff for the planned four-day mission is set for 9:59 A.M. Thursday.

The spacecraft's four-day mission is still officially scheduled to begin the first week of September.

The Discovery took off Wednesday night on what was supposed to be a four-day mission.

They see the launching and the planned four-day mission as a crucial turning point in the nation's space program.

Four top advisers to the President were scheduled to leave tonight on a four-day mission to Poland to encourage that country to create a free-enterprise economy.

Indeed, more than once during this four-day, one-man mission, Death Skull guards had ventured very close to his hiding spot.

The four-day mission ended successfully with the Discovery's landing here Monday.

The unmanned spacecraft was deployed by the space shuttle Atlantis, which is scheduled to end its four-day mission with a landing Monday afternoon.