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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]
The prime landing site was the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a purpose-built landing strip. Landings also occurred at Edwards Air Force Base in California, and one took place at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. No Space Shuttle landed on a dry lakebed runway after 1991.
Atmospheric reentry and landing at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. Detailed timeline for first landing opportunity: [12] 3:13 am CDT Deorbit Prep begins; 4:24 am CDT Payload Bay Doors Closing; 4:36 am CDT MCC "Go" for Ops 3 Transition; 5:40 am CDT Clothing Configuration; 6:04 am CDT Seat Ingress; 6:16 am CDT OMS Gimbal Check
Since the landing time coincided with the local sunset time 17:32 EST (22:32 UTC), the shuttle landing was not considered a night landing, as official rules for a night landing are sunset + 15 minutes; however, the xenon runway lighting system was in use. Discovery touched down 30 seconds before the expected time. Landing time at Kennedy was at ...
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-32 was, at the time, the longest shuttle mission yet conducted, with a duration of nearly 11 days. Before STS-32, the only mission of the same duration had been STS-9 in 1983. On January 20, 1990, STS-32 executed the third night landing of the shuttle program. STS-32 was also the first Shuttle mission of the 1990s.
The mission ended 8 days later with the landing of Atlantis back at Kennedy. It was the second in a series of seven straight missions to the station flown by Atlantis. The shuttle delivered a pair of solar arrays along with the Russian-built Mir Docking Module to allow docking with the station by the space shuttle without moving Mir's Kristall ...
A circulation pump in Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) No. 1 failed 55 seconds before liftoff. [4] 2: 4 May 1989, 2:46:59 pm: Success: 6 days 0 hours 18 minutes: 60 [5] The countdown was held at T−5 minutes due to unacceptable cloud cover and excessive crosswinds at the Shuttle Landing Facility, but cleared in time for launch. [4]