Question: NASA’s Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center has one of the longest runways in the world. How long is it?
Answer: It’s 15,000 feet long and 300 feet wide, with 1,000-foot paved overruns on each end, built to stop a 100-ton orbiter touching down at better than 200 mph. The runway hosted 78 shuttle landings between 1984 and 2011, ending with Atlantis on July 21, 2011.
