US officials contacted the Irish Government in 1995 to request the use of Shannon Airport as an emergency landing location for a Nasa space shuttle, documents released as part of the State Papers show ...

At the time, NASA was preparing to launch the space shuttle, Atlantis, in June 1995 on a mission to dock with the Russian Mir space station The US embassy in Dublin had asked for Shannon Airport – ...

Shannon Airport was proposed as an emergency landing site for Nasa’s Space Shuttle. Newly released files in the State Papers revealed the Clare airport was proposed by US officials as one of a series ...

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SHANNON AIRPORT WAS proposed as a potential “emergency landing” site for the NASA Space Shuttle after a change in the launch plans for the now-defunct spacecraft some thirty years ago. According to ...

Roger Biermann is an automotive journalist of 13 years and has been the Managing Editor at CarBuzz since 2021. With no formal post-high school education, Roger launched his career as an automotive ...

Greg Biffle and members of his family were among the seven killed in the crash. A person aboard a small private jet that crashed in North Carolina on Thursday texted "emergency landing" to a family ...

The Minnesota Vikings' team plane was forced to turn around Saturday afternoon shortly after it took off for New Jersey for the team's game against the New York Giants on Sunday. The plane was headed ...

The Purdue Campus Connect shuttle is available for free for faculty, staff and students who spend time at both the West Lafayette and the Indianapolis locations. Provided by Royal Excursion, multiple ...

Senior republican Bobby Storey has been named in newly released State Papers as being the man senior British officials believed was behind the December 2004 £26.5m Northern bank robbery. The ...