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NASA to use Lackland as stopover
Team Lackland will once again support the NASA Space Program by allowing the space shuttle to stopover here while on its trek home to Cape Canaveral at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
Before Kelly Air Force Base closed in 2001, the airfield was the most frequent stop in a transport route as the shuttle made its way atop a Boeing 747 from Edwards AFB, California, to its Florida home. Support of the program at what was then Kelly AFB was dropped in October 2000.

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