Base, Columbus, Mississippi Dover Air Force Base, Dover, Delaware Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas East Texas Regional Airport, Longview, TexasEdwards Air Force Base, California Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rapid City, South Dakota Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska Fort Huachuca, Arizona, Sierra Vista, Arizona Francis S. Gabreski Airport, Long Island, New York Grant County International Airport, Moses Lake, Washington Grand Forks Air Force Base, Grand Forks, North Dakota Griffiss International Airport, Rome, New York Grissom Air Force Base, Bunker Hill, Indiana Hickam Air Force Base, Honolulu, Hawaii John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, New YorkKennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida Lehigh Valley International Airport, Allentown, Pennsylvania Lincoln Airport, Lincoln, Nebraska Mountain Home Air Force Base, Mountain Home, Idaho Myrtle Beach International Airport, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Orlando International Airport, Orlando, Florida Otis Air National Guard Base, Falmouth, Massachusetts Pease Air Force Base, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, New York Portsmouth International Airport, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Stewart Air National Guard Base, Newburgh, New York Westover Air Force Base, Chicopee, MassachusettsWhite Sands Space Harbor, White Sands, New Mexico Wilmington International Airport, Wilmington, North Carolina Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OhioDemocratic Republic of the CongoN'djili Airport, Kinshasa (until 1997)Other locations''' In the event of an emergency deorbit that would bring the orbiter down in an area not within range of a designated emergency landing site, the orbiter was theoretically capable of landing on any paved runway that was at least long, which included the majority of large commercial airports. In practice, a US or allied military airfield would have been preferred for reasons of security arrangements and minimizing the disruption of commercial air traffic. In popular culture A launch abort to Easter Island sets off the events of Lee Correy's 1981 novel Shuttle Down. A detailed RTLS maneuver is depicted in astronaut Mike Mullane's 1993 technothriller novel Red Sky: A Novel of Love, Space, & War. The use of the inflight crew escape system (ICES) was depicted in the 2000 sci-fi film Space Cowboys''. See also Apollo abort modes Launch escape system NASA Space Shuttle decision Orion abort modes Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Space Shuttle program Soyuz abort modes References External links Volume 1, chapter 9 of the Rogers commission report Abort modes