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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-124 Pilot Ken Ham takes his seat in the cockpit of NASA's Shuttle Training Aircraft, or STA, preparing to 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.
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Credit lineKSC-08pd1154. NASA/KSC, 2008-05-06. Public domain. ID: KSC-08pd1154.
