Shannon Airport has had many eye-catching visitors over the years. But the prospect of a NASA space shuttle hurtling towards it in a potential crash landing scenario understandably surprised even the ...
Ireland was required to agree to plan under 1960s space treaties - but felt crash landing was only a remote possibility ...
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Shannon Airport was an emergency landing spot for the Space Shuttle if multiple engines failed
In that event, the shuttle could attempt an emergency landing at Shannon Airport. To reassure Irish authorities, the embassy added that “United States personnel (both US government and contractor) ...
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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 space station ...
Newly released files in the State Papers revealed the Clare airport was proposed by US officials as one of a series of emergency landing sites should the Space Shuttle experience ...
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