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In 1976, NASA selected Northrup Strip as the site for shuttle pilot training. A second runway was added crossing the original north-south landing strip, and in 1979 both lakebed runways were lengthened to 35,000 ft (10,668 m), which includes 15,000 ft (4,572 m) usable runway with 10,000 ft (3048 m) extensions on either end, to allow White Sands Space Harbor to serve as shuttle backup landing ...
Columbia (STS-3) landing on Northrop Strip at White Sands Space Harbor, 30 March 1982, flanked by two T-38 chase planes. White Sands Space Harbor at White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico was an emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle and was used as a backup when the runways at Edwards Air Force Base and the Kennedy Space Center were ...
The entire trip is expected to take a few hours before the uncrewed vehicle lands around 12:03 a.m. Saturday at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. Boeing has work ahead if Starliner is to be ...
STS-3 was the first shuttle launch with an unpainted external tank, and the only mission to land at the White Sands Space Harbor near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The orbiter was forced to land at White Sands due to flooding at its originally planned landing site, Edwards Air Force Base.
The spacecraft landed safely just after midnight Eastern time at it's designated landing site, White Sands Space Harbor at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Boeing said in a ...
Starliner successfully touched down at New Mexico’s White Sands Space Harbor at 12:01 a.m. ET. NASA footage showed the capsule streaking across the night sky before two sets of parachutes opened ...
Just after 6:00 p.m. EST on Friday, Sept. 6, the capsule that brought the two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) more than 90 days ago undocked from the ISS (and NASA is streaming ...
1 List of airports with a paved runway at least 4,000 m (13,123 ft) long. 2 Other notable runways. 3 See also. ... White Sands Space Harbor [116], B: United States