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KSC-08pd0487
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — At NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, a Shuttle Training Aircraft, or STA, is preparing to take off for practice space shuttle landings. The STA 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-08pd0487. NASA/KSC, 2008-02-23. Public domain. ID: KSC-08pd0487.
