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KSC-08pd3395
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-126 Commander Chris Ferguson walks away from the Shuttle Training Aircraft, or STA, after practicing shuttle landings. The STA is a Grumman American Aviation-built Gulf Stream II jet that was modified to simulate a shuttle’s cockpit, motion and visual cues, and handling qualities. In flight, the aircraft duplicates the shuttle’s atmospheric descent trajectory from approximately 35,000 feet to landing.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-08pd3395. NASA/KSC, 2008-10-27. Public domain. ID: KSC-08pd3395.
