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Space Florida Launch and Landing Facility

Titusville, United States

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Space Florida Launch and Landing Facility

Titusville, United States
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Historic NASA runway repurposed for commercial space operations.

Opened
1976
Location
Titusville, United States
The Space Florida Launch and Landing Facility (LLF), designated KTTS, is located at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island near Titusville, Florida. Originally built as the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) by NASA, the 15,000-foot runway served as the primary landing site for the Space Shuttle orbiter throughout the program's history from 1976 to 2011. Following the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, NASA transferred operational control of the facility to Space Florida, the state's aerospace economic development agency, to support commercial spaceflight activities. The facility has since been used by companies such as SpaceX for returning Crew Dragon astronauts and by other aerospace operators conducting flight tests and cargo operations. The LLF is not a commercial passenger airport in the traditional sense; it functions primarily as an aerospace and spaceport facility. Its extraordinary runway length and infrastructure make it uniquely suited for supporting large aircraft, spacecraft recovery, and emerging commercial space transportation needs.
Notable facts
  • The runway is 15,000 feet long and 300 feet wide, one of the longest in the world.
  • Originally constructed as NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility, it hosted 78 Space Shuttle landings.
  • Space Florida took over operations from NASA after the Shuttle program ended in 2011.
  • SpaceX has used the facility for crew and cargo recovery operations.
  • The facility holds an FAA-issued launch site operator license supporting orbital and suborbital operations.
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