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  2. List of Space Shuttle landing sites - Wikipedia

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    Edwards Air Force Base in California was the site of the first Space Shuttle landing, and became a back-up site to the prime landing location, the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center. Several runways are arrayed on the dry lakebed at Rogers Dry Lake, [6] and there are also concrete runways. Space shuttle landings on the lake ...

  3. List of Vandenberg Space Force Base launch facilities

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    Space Launch Complex 4 West (Landing Zone 4) Active Leased to SpaceX: Current: Falcon 9 first stage landing site. Retired: Atlas-Agena, Titan IIIB, Titan 23G. Clementine, QuickSCAT, SAOCOM-1A (landing) Space Launch Complex 8: Active. Tenanted by Northrop Grumman

  4. Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 6 - Wikipedia

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    Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6, pronounced "Slick Six") is a launch pad and associated support infrastructure at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Construction at the site began in 1966, but the first launch didn't occur until 1995 due to program cancellations and subsequent repurposing efforts.

  5. Vandenberg Space Force Base - Wikipedia

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    Vandenberg Space Force Base (IATA: VBG, ICAO: KVBG, FAA LID: VBG), previously Vandenberg Air Force Base, is a United States Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California. Established in 1941, Vandenberg Space Force Base is a space launch base, launching spacecraft from the Western Range , and also performs missile testing.

  6. SpaceX facilities - Wikipedia

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    Robert D. Cabana, director of KSC, announces the signing of the LC-39A lease agreement on April 14, 2014.. In December 2013, NASA and SpaceX were in negotiations for SpaceX to lease Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, after SpaceX was selected in a multi-company bid process, following NASA's decision in early 2013 to lease the unused complex as part of a bid to reduce annual operation and ...

  7. Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4 - Wikipedia

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    Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) is a launch and landing site at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, U.S. It has two pads, both of which are used by SpaceX for Falcon 9, one for launch operations, and the other as Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) for SpaceX landings. The complex was previously used by Atlas and Titan rockets between 1963 and 2005.

  8. List of rocket launch sites - Wikipedia

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    Space Centre Australia secured land for main site facilities for space launch, located 43km east of Weipa, close to RAAF Scherger in 2023. [90] Final approvals may come under Mokwiri Aboriginal Corporation. [90] Previously a Cape York Space Agency was established by the government to develop a facility for Ukrainian Zenit launches at

  9. List of longest runways - Wikipedia

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    North America 4,877 16,001 Hamad ... Shuttle Landing Facility [16] ... Vandenberg Space Force Base [17] United States: North America 4,572 15,000 Windhoek Hosea ...