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KSC-07pd1370
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — STS-117 Pilot Lee Archambault climbs into the shuttle training aircraft, or STA, at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility. He will be making practice landings in the STA, which is a Grumman American Aviation-built Gulf Stream II 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-07pd1370. NASA/KSC, 2007-06-05. Public domain. ID: KSC-07pd1370.
