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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. White Sands Space Harbor - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Shuttle Landing Facility - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of Shuttle Landing Facility in 1999 The Mate-Demate Device at the Shuttle Landing Facility. The Shuttle Landing Facility covers 500 acres (2.0 km 2) and has a single runway, 15/33. It is one of the longest runways in the world, at 15,000 feet (4,600 m), and is 300 feet (91 m) wide. [2]

  5. The Dream Is Alive - Wikipedia

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    Footage is also shown of Discovery's landing and transport from its landing site at Edwards Air Force Base to Kennedy Space Center on the back of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. STS-41-G : The sixth flight of Challenger , notable as the largest crew aboard the Shuttle at that time, the first time two women flew together on the Shuttle, and the ...

  6. Rendezvous pitch maneuver - Wikipedia

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    The R-bar pitch maneuver (RPM), popularly called the rendezvous pitch maneuver or backflip, [1] was a maneuver performed by the Space Shuttle as it rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) prior to docking. The Shuttle performed a backflip that exposed its heat-shield to the crew of the ISS that made photographs of it. Based on ...

  7. STS-59 - Wikipedia

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    A view of the Sahara Desert in Algeria, one of the geology sites, was taken to help scientists map surface and subsurface structures, including drainage patterns. Also, the two radar imaging systems were calibrated over Matera, Italy, and Oberpfaffenhofen , Germany, near Munich, in collaboration with students from the University of Munich .

  8. “The View” star confronted 'scary person' Matt Gaetz at White ...

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    "The coroner said the head injury caused the death, but she wasn’t struck by another person." The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC . Show comments

  9. STS-51-D - Wikipedia

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    STS-51-D was the 16th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the fourth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. [2] The launch of STS-51-D from Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, on April 12, 1985, was delayed by 55 minutes, after a boat strayed into the restricted Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) recovery zone. STS-51-D was the third shuttle ...