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KSC-08pd1475
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, STS-124 Pilot Ken Ham walks away from the shuttle training aircraft after landing practice. 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 aircraft 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-08pd1475. NASA/KSC, 2008-05-28. Public domain. ID: KSC-08pd1475.
