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Which Airports Could The Space Shuttle Land At? – Simple Flying
The Space Shuttle was a spacecraft system used by NASA between 1981 and 2011. The US built five…
The Space Shuttle was a spacecraft system used by NASA between 1981 and 2011. The US built five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles between those years and operated them on 135 missions launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But, it was one thing to lift off, and another to land.
The five Space Shuttle Orbiters landed in three runways across the US during their history. Photo: NASA
Here we take a look at what the Space Shuttle Orbiter was, and some of the airports at which it could…
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