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KSC-05pd-0889
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — A Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) is ready for STS-114 Pilot James Kelly to begin practice landing the orbiter. The STA is a modified Grumman American Aviation-built Gulfstream II executive jet that was modified to simulate an orbiter’s cockpit, motion and visual cues, and handling qualities. In flight, the STA duplicates the orbiter’s atmospheric descent trajectory from approximately 35,000 feet altitude to landing on a runway.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05pd-0889. NASA/KSC, 2005-05-02. Public domain. ID: 05pd0889.
