World / USA / Florida / Cape Canaveral, 9 km from center Coordinates: 28°28'4"N   80°33'53"W
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) Skid Strip

This is not the Space shuttle landing strip.

[See the other runway to the northwest, next to the shuttle assembly building.]

This particular runway is primarily used for operations of the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA). It was also used by NASA for the transportation of the S-IVB upper stage of the Saturn IB and Saturn V rocket using the famous "Super Guppy" cargo plane.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_AFS_Skid_Strip
Category: space runway kennedy shuttle nasa landing airforce


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