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Flight test files: Convair CV-990 Coronado – A journey through landing gear research

In the 1990s, NASA sought to test and improve the space shuttle landing gear and braking systems. As a result, it initiated a program in which the Convair CV-990 Coronado was used as a Landing Systems ...
SpaceNews

NASA and Zero-G Test Space Shuttle Runway Program

NASA and Zero Gravity Corporation, known as ZERO-G, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., have announced the firm’s participation in a pilot program. It will demonstrate expanded access to and use of the space ...
SpaceNews

NASA Clears Space Shuttle Discovery for Landing

Space Shuttle mission managers today completed their assessment of Discovery’s fitness to handle the rigors of re-entry into the atmosphere. “We have cleared Discovery to re-enter,” said Wayne Hale, ...
Phys.org

NASA tests new ways to stick the landing in challenging terrain

Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, ...
insider.si.edu

Space shuttle : STS flights 1-5, incl. approach & landing tests : the NASA mission reports / compiled from the archives & edited by Robert Godwin

CD-ROM contains movies and images of the flights and postflight press conferences, and Space shuttle news reference handbook (HTML). System requirements: Windows 95 ...
Orlando Sentinel

Sierra Space Dream Chaser’s landing chops tested at high speed down KSC runway

Contrary to appearances, the vehicle that looked like a little space shuttle was not broken down when it was being hauled down the runway at Kennedy Space Center. Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser ...