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Choosing a Landing Site for Wright Air & Space Center

2006

Abstract

draft document When Colonel Mark N. Brown was orbiting the earth as a Mission Specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-28 in 1989, and when he served aboard Discovery on STS-48 in 1991, the decision regarding where to land was primarily in the hands of NASA Mission Control. Barring an emergency, the landing sites were limited to Edwards AFB,