Shuttle Landing Facility

Autor/Urheber:

NASA

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https://dewiki.de/b/f76fd

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Wikimedia Commons

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Beschreibung:

This aerial photo of the runway at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility looks northwest. Longer and wider than most commercial runways, it is about 15,000 feet long, with 1,000-foot paved overruns on each end, and 300 feet wide, with 50-foot asphalt shoulders. The runway is used by military and civilian cargo carriers, astronauts’ T-38 trainers, Shuttle Training Aircraft and helicopters, as well as the Space Shuttle. At center right is the parking apron with the orbiter mate/demate tower. The tow-way stretches from the runway to the right, passing the hangar and storage facilities. A grassy area next to the mid-point of the runway is where the new control tower is located.

Lizenz:

Public domain

Credit:

• https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-04pd0938
• http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=22628 on the Wayback Machine

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