The Control Tower at the Shuttle Landing Facility (runway) at Kennedy Space Center. It is here that the Shuttle Atlantis is expected to land before dawn on Thursday, July 21, 2011, ending thirty years of the shuttle program. The Control Tower is part of a complex halfway down the SLF. Other facilities adjoining the Tower [...]
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Posted in Control Tower, Runway / Shuttle Landing Facility, STS-134, tagged florida, kennedy space center, shuttle control tower, shuttle landing facility, shuttle runway, where does the shuttle land? on July 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What happened when a Shuttle didn’t land in Florida?
Posted in Runway / Shuttle Landing Facility, space shuttle, tagged 747, atlantis, california, edwards air force base, hangar, how did it work?, how did they remove shuttle from 747?, new mexico, on top of 747, opf, orbiter processing facility, runway, shuttle, shuttle landing facility, shuttle on top of 747, shuttle on top of airplane, slf, white sands on June 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When the weather or other conditions forced the shuttles to land in California or New Mexico, the shuttles had to be returned to Florida for servicing and to be prepared for another launch. Accomplishing the return of a shuttle from an alternative landing site was time-consuming and expensive. The first landings of the shuttles were [...]
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Posted in Runway / Shuttle Landing Facility, space shuttle, STS-134, tagged control tower, florida, kennedy space center, landing field, nasa, runway, shuttle landing field, where does the shuttle land? on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Control Tower at the shuttle landing facility sits midway down the runway where the shuttles landed. Only one more shuttle will land here — the Atlantis when she returns from the final mission now scheduled for July. The shuttles always land here — even when they first return from space and land somewhere else [...]
