The Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), also known as Launch and Landing Facility (LLF)[1] (IATA: QQS, ICAO: KTTS, FAA LID: TTS), is an airport located on Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the Kennedy Space Center and was used by Space Shuttle for landing until July 2011. It was also used for takeoffs and landings for NASA training jets such as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and for civilian aircraft.[2][3]
Starting in 2015, Space Florida manages and operates the facility under a 30-year lease from NASA. In addition to ongoing use by NASA, private companies have been utilizing the SLF since the 2011 end of the Space Shuttle program.[4]
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The ShuttleLandingFacility (SLF), also known as Launch and LandingFacility (LLF) (IATA: QQS, ICAO: KTTS, FAA LID: TTS), is an airport located on Merritt...
747-100SR. The SCAs were used to ferry Space Shuttles from landing sites back to the ShuttleLandingFacility at the Kennedy Space Center. The orbiters were...
especially in the early days of the Space Shuttle program or when weather at the ShuttleLandingFacility (SLF) at Kennedy Space Center prevented ending...
The final shuttle mission was completed with the landing of Atlantis on July 21, 2011, closing the 30-year Space Shuttle program. The Shuttle was presented...
suit-up area, a Space Station factory, and a 3-mile (4.8 km) long ShuttleLandingFacility. There is also a Visitor Complex on site that is open to the public...
testing in the Vehicle Assembly Building, Orbiter Processing Facility, and ShuttleLandingFacility. Pathfinder is approximately the same size, shape and weight...
runway landing, usually to the ShuttleLandingFacility at KSC, Florida, or to Rogers Dry Lake in Edwards Air Force Base, California. If the landing occurred...
Approach and Landing Tests The Approach and Landing Tests were a series of sixteen taxi and flight trials of the prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise that...
practicing landings at the ShuttleLandingFacility and White Sands Space Harbor as well as to assess weather conditions prior to Space Shuttle launches...
Boeing 747 airliner called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and released for a series of atmospheric test flights and landings. Enterprise was partially disassembled...
Center or Edwards Air Force Base. The Shuttle is the only winged crewed spacecraft to have achieved orbit and landing, and the first reusable crewed space...
Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational...
Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) is a class of hangars where U.S. Space Shuttle orbiters underwent maintenance between flights. They are located west...
orbits of Earth, the mission ended with the Endeavour landing at the ShuttleLandingFacility in Florida, September 20, 1992 12:53 (UTC). Mission duration...
biological processes.: 23–26 The mission concluded with a landing at the ShuttleLandingFacility, Florida on July 9, 1992, at 11:42:27 UTC.: 5 Bowersox's...
Moon. AFRC was the home of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a modified Boeing 747 designed to carry a Space Shuttle orbiter back to Kennedy Space Center...
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the first American...
shuttle missions, beginning with the dawn landing of Discovery at Kennedy Space Center's ShuttleLandingFacility upon the conclusion of STS-51-A. A composite...
into the cargo aircraft and were flown to Kennedy Space Center's ShuttleLandingFacility for unloading and final transfers to the SSPF and or the Operations...
The Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF) is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet...
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