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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. The space shuttle Columbia arrived at Tinker Air Force Base Monday riding piggyback on a Boeing 747 for the last leg of a journey that began April 12 and took it around the world 36 times.
Thousands of people had crowded onto the base prior to the space orbiter s arrival at 3:53 CDT and thousands more were waiting their chance to get a close-up look at the first re-usable spacecraft.
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Tinker officials expected approximately 100,000 people to pass through the base to take pictures and just look at the spaceship from a public viewing area 1,000 feet away before the craft s departure for Cape Canaveral Tuesday morning.