Talk:Shuttle Landing Facility

message: I would suggest that, per Naming Conventions, we merge NASA Shuttle Landing Facility into Shuttle Landing Facility rather than the other way around. - more common usage, unneccisary disambiguation --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 19:26, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: Add any additional comments
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:The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was PAGE MOVED per reasonable and well-argued request, previous request was unopposed.  If somebody objects, let them say so and we can talk about it then. -GTBacchus(talk) 00:24, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: How do they get the shuttles back to KSC? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.16.151.77 (talk) 20:45, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Question About Shuttles

message: Isn't it a bit strange that the runway is 15 and 33? shouldn't it be 15 and 30-31, or 16-17 and 33? 09:34, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What is strange about it?  The runway is aligned northwest/southeast (330 degrees northwest/150 degrees southeast). Fl295 18:58, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Runway naming 

message: Sounds like a hoax to me. --20% 00:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: While I don't see an online reference for the specific term, the style sounds consistent with NASA worker nicknames  and should be non-controversial.  It had to be called the "gator <something> facility".  Undeveloped areas of KSC are a wildlife refuge, including literally thousands of alligators.  There is indeed a well-documented problem with clearing alligators off the Shuttle Landing Facility runway before a shuttle landing.  When I've visited Central Florida, I noticed that alligators and lightning rods have something in common: once you notice one of them, you notice that they're everywhere. Ikluft (talk) 02:15, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I don't doubt the nickname as such, I just haven't found evidence that alligators regularly stay on the actual runway (as opposed to the surroundings). But that seems fine now ;-) Thanks. --20% 23:45, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Gator tanning facility" 

message: It says in Merrit Island, but  merrit island is located more south of it. i think it is more in Titusville because the visitor center is south of that and it is in titusville. Parker1297 (talk) 16:13, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  City Location 

message: What year did it open? 1992? 99.151.253.124 (talk) 19:07, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What year 

message: Just curious about one thing--I know STS-41B was the first orbital mission to land at the Shuttle Landing Facility, but was this also the first time an Orbiter landed there?  Did NASA do any kind of aproach and landing test before using the facility "for real?"--Craigkbryant (talk) 20:20, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  First landing? 

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message: I have added a "failed verification" tag to the claim that the facility is also known as the "gator tanning facility." If we can't find a source for this, I think it should be removed. CapitalSasha ~ talk 00:40, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Gator tanning facility"