Shannon Airport has had many eye-catching visitors over the years. But the prospect of a NASA space shuttle hurtling towards ...
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Shannon Airport was an emergency landing spot for the Space Shuttle if multiple engines failed
In that event, the shuttle could attempt an emergency landing at Shannon Airport. To reassure Irish authorities, the embassy added that “United States personnel (both US government and contractor) ...
Ireland was required to agree to plan under 1960s space treaties - but felt crash landing was only a remote possibility ...
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State Papers: Nasa wanted to use Shannon Airport as a landing site for the space shuttle
At the time, NASA was preparing to launch the space shuttle, Atlantis, in June 1995 on a mission to dock with the Russian Mir ...
Newly released files in the State Papers revealed the Clare airport was proposed by US officials as one of a series of emergency landing sites should the Space Shuttle experience ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After 30 years of spaceflight, NASA's iconic space shuttles will fly no more. The space agency's storied shuttle program ended today (July 21) when the shuttle Atlantis soared ...
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NASA’s ‘flying bathtub’ taught the Space Shuttle how to land
In 1962, NASA’s Flight Research Center in California approved the construction of a prototype lifting body aircraft, which became the M2-F1, also known as the “ Flying Bathtub .” The designation is ...
Randolf Breznik is heading to the ISS in 2017. —STAR CITY, Russia -- A U.S. astronaut has spent two nights braving the Russian snows with his crew at a space center outside Moscow, simulating ...
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