French Istres Base New Shuttle Abort Site
The U.S. and France have agreed that the Istres Le Tube military airfield near Marseilles will be a formal transatlantic abort landing (TAL) site for space shuttle launches when the fleet returns to flight later this year. Istres has been a contingency landing site since 2000, but not a formal TAL...
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