Kennedy Space Center Runway

June 10, 1986

Length: 15,001 feet, with a 1,000-foot overrun at both ends.

Width: 300 feet.

Thickness: 16 inches in the center and 15 inches at the sides.

Cost: $27.2 million.

Completed: August 1976.

Size of runway complex: 1,350 acres.

Surface: 252,000 cubic yards of concrete.

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