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Forum: Space Shuttles - Space Station
Topic: Shuttle landings diverted to Edwards AFB temporary runway (STS-124 & STS-126)

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 11-29-2008 04:31 PM I asked entry flight director Bryan Lunney (son of Apollo-era flight director Glynn Lunney) about their choice of runways at Edwards AFB for the STS-126 landing: <BLOCKQUOTE>"We're still using [the temp runway] because that is where all the landing aids are -- the navigation aids that we have when we come in for a landing. We did not move those things because it takes a little bit of effort and planning to get those moved over to the prime runway," Lunney replied, adding that when STS-125 was still manifested for late October, there would not have been enough time between Atlantis' and Endeavour's missions to change the landing aids. When the Hubble servicing mission slipped into 2009, Lunney said they did look again at the situation. "We did briefly consider that, but by that time all the plans were in place with everybody and we did not need to move," he said. "The temporary runway, as we call it, is a perfectly fine runway to go land on. It is a little bit shorter but that is no issue for us to go land on."</BLOCKQUOTE>
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