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 ...