Space Shuttle Landing

Three locations in the united states were used as landing sites for the space shuttle system.
Space shuttle landing. This will be the 50th landing of a space shuttle at edwards air force base. Unlike the shuttle which landed on a runway the dragon spacecraft is something of a throwback a capsule that will land in water under parachutes. Parachutes are an old technology but a tricky. Eight minutes 135 miles to touchdown.
The prime landing site was the shuttle landing facility at the kennedy space center in florida a purpose built landing strip. Each site included runways of sufficient length for the slowing down of a returning spacecraft. Shuttle endeavour is silhouetted against the dawn sky as it rolls to launch pad 39a for sts 130 launch preparations. Space shuttle atlantis completed the program on july 21 2011 wrapping up the sts 135 mission with a predawn touchdown on the same runway where columbia first arrived more than 30 years earlier.