US officials requested Shannon Airport as Nasa space shuttle’s emergency landing site

Ireland was required to agree to plan under 1960s space treaties - but felt crash landing was only a remote possibility ...
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State Papers: Nasa wanted to use Shannon Airport as a landing site for the space shuttle

At the time, NASA was preparing to launch the space shuttle, Atlantis, in June 1995 on a mission to dock with the Russian Mir ...
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Shannon Airport was an 'emergency landing' spot for the Space Shuttle if multiple engines failed

SHANNON AIRPORT WAS proposed as a potential “emergency landing” site for the NASA Space Shuttle after a change in the launch plans for the now-defunct spacecraft some thirty years ago.

Safety panel says NASA should have taken Starliner incident more seriously

Another member of the safety panel, Mark Sirangelo, said NASA should formally declare mishaps and close calls as soon as possible. “It allows for the investigative team to be starting to be formed a ...