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KSC-2011-4664
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson and Pilot Doug Hurley take off from the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to perform touch-and-go landings aboard their Shuttle Training Aircrafts (STA). An STA is a Gulfstream II jet that is modified to mimic the shuttle's handling during the final phase of landing.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-2011-4664. NASA/KSC, 2011-06-20. Public domain. ID: KSC-2011-4664.