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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. STS-3 - Wikipedia

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    STS-3 was NASA's third Space Shuttle mission, and was the third mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on March 22, 1982, and landed eight days later on March 30, 1982. The mission, crewed by Jack R. Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton, involved extensive orbital endurance testing of Columbia itself, as well as numerous scientific ...

  5. STS-68 - Wikipedia

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    On Monday, October 3, 1994, at 5 pm CDT, STS-68 MCC Status Report # 6 reports: Endeavour's payload bay cameras sent to Earth dramatic video of the western coast of Oregon and the length of California and the Baja Peninsula that scientists will compare with radar images downlinked from Space Radar Laboratory-2 instruments earlier in the flight ...

  6. Shuttle Training Aircraft - Wikipedia

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    The Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) is a former NASA training vehicle that duplicated the Space Shuttle's approach profile and handling qualities, allowing pilots to simulate Shuttle landings under controlled conditions before attempting the task on board the orbiter. The STA was also flown to assess weather conditions just prior to Space ...

  7. List of Space Shuttle missions - Wikipedia

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    The Kennedy Space Center served as the landing site for 78 missions, while 54 missions landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California and one mission landed at White Sands, New Mexico. [5] The first orbiter built, Enterprise, was used for atmospheric flight tests (ALT) but future plans to upgrade it to orbital capability were ultimately canceled.

  8. 1995 in spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    White Sands LC-36 NASA NASA Suborbital Aeronomy: 15 April: Successful 18 April 18:00 Black Brant IX White Sands LC-36 NASA NASA Suborbital Solar research: 18 April: Successful 21 April 15:04 THAAD: White Sands US Air Force US Air Force Suborbital Test flight: 21 April: Successful Maiden flight of THAAD 24 April: Hera: White Sands LC-32 US Air ...

  9. STS-116 - Wikipedia

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    STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. Discovery lifted off on December 9, 2006 for her 33rd flight at 20:47:35 EST . A previous launch attempt on December 7 had been canceled due to cloud cover.

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