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2. Space Shuttle Independence - Wikipedia

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   Space Shuttle Independence, formerly known as Explorer, is a full-scale, high-fidelity replica of the Space Shuttle. It was built by Guard-Lee in Apopka, Florida , installed at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in 1993, and moved to Space Center Houston in 2012.

3. Space Center Houston - Wikipedia

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   Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It was designated a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. The organization is owned by NASA, and operated under a contract by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.

4. Maxime Faget - Wikipedia

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   Space shuttle model, created by Faget, April 1, 1969 Maxime Allen "Max" Faget [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (pronounced fah-ZHAY ; August 26, 1921 – October 9, 2004) was an American mechanical engineer . Faget was the designer of the Mercury spacecraft , and contributed to the later Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as well as the Space Shuttle .

5. North American DC-3 - Wikipedia

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   The DC-3 was one of several early design proposals for the NASA Space Shuttle designed by Maxime Faget at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston. It was nominally developed by North American Aviation (NAA), although it was a purely NASA-internal design.

6. List of Space Shuttle landing sites - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Shuttle Carrier Aircraft - Wikipedia

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   The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) are two extensively modified Boeing 747 airliners that NASA used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters. One (N905NA) is a 747-100 model, while the other (N911NA) is a short-range 747-100SR.