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All sites have runways of sufficient length to support the landing of a Space Shuttle, and included personnel from NASA as well as equipment to aid a space shuttle landing. [12] Zaragoza Air Base features Runway 30L with a length of 12,109 ft (3,691 m); [ 13 ] Morón Air Base features an 11,800 ft (3,600 m) runway; [ 14 ] and Istres Air Base ...
Corn Ranch, commonly referred to as Launch Site One (LSO), is a spaceport owned and operated by Blue Origin which is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of the town of Van Horn, Texas, United States. The 165,000-acre (670 km 2) plot of land was purchased by Jeff Bezos in 2004.
Langley Research Center (LaRC), founded in 1917, is the oldest of NASA's field centers, located in Hampton, Virginia.LaRC focuses primarily on aeronautical research, though the Apollo lunar lander was flight-tested at the facility and a number of high-profile space missions have been planned and designed on-site.
In 1976, the 924 TAG relocated to Bergstrom AFB, Texas and with the 924th's departure, other portions of former USAF infrastructure at Ellington were transferred to NASA, to the U.S. Coast Guard as part of Coast Guard Air Station Houston, and to other DoD Reserve Component activities. However, a significant portion base real estate and ...
The center's Landing and Recovery Division operated MV Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico for Gemini and Apollo astronauts to practice water egress after splashdown. [citation needed] On February 19, 1973, four weeks after Johnson's death, President Richard Nixon signed into law a Senate resolution renaming the Manned Spacecraft Center in his honor.
The aerospace company has been conducting all of its Starship test launches from Boca Chica, near the Texas-Mexico border along the coast. Earlier this year, it announced a $100 million, five ...
NASA is planning to return humankind to the moon for the first time in over five decades. The agency has narrowed its safe landing sights down to nine. NASA identifies 9 possible landing spots for ...
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 ...