Space Shuttle Landing
The prime landing site was the shuttle landing facility at the kennedy space center in florida a purpose built landing strip.
Space shuttle landing. Discovery is in range of ground tracking and using tactical air navigation tacan data. Unlike the shuttle which landed on a runway the dragon spacecraft is something of a throwback a capsule that will land in water under parachutes. Space shuttle atlantis completed the program on july 21 2011 wrapping up the sts 135 mission with a predawn touchdown on the same runway where columbia first arrived more than 30 years earlier.
Three locations in the united states were used as landing sites for the space shuttle system. Each site included runways of sufficient length for the slowing down of a returning spacecraft. 10 minutes until touchdown.
Parachutes are an old technology but a tricky. Eight minutes 135 miles to touchdown.