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This was the shortest runway the shuttle ever landed on, the temporary runway 4L at Edwards, which was 12,000 feet long. The SLF at KSC, and the main runway at Edwards, 4/22 (temporarily called 4R/22L) are both 15,000 feet long.
After spending 15 days, 20 hours, 30 minutes, and 30 seconds docked to the station, during which the crew performed four spacewalks, and transferred cargo, the orbiter undocked on 28 November 2008. [10] . Due to poor weather at Kennedy Space Center, Endeavour landed at Edwards Air Force Base on 30 November 2008 at 21:25:09 UTC. [11]
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30 lis 2008 · The decision to land Endeavour at Edwards was made due to weather concerns at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the 52nd landing at Edwards, Endeavour touched down at 4:25 p.m. EST to end the STS-126 mission, completing its 16-day journey of more than 6.6 million miles in space.
30 lis 2008 · Mission duration was 15 days 20 hours 29 minutes and 37 seconds, covering some 6.6 million miles through 250 complete orbits since blastoff Nov. 14 from the Kennedy Space Center.
Entry Flight Director Bryan Lunney hopes the Florida weather will cooperate and permit the Endeavour astronauts to land Sunday at the Kennedy Space Center. But if predicted high crosswinds and...
Landing: Nov. 30, 2008, at 4:25 p.m. EST. After two landing opportunities were waved off at the primary landing site in Florida due to weather concerns, En-deavour landed on a temporary runway adjacent to the concrete runway 22/04 at EAFB. The temporary runway is 12,000 feet long by 200 feet wide and is a
