A total of 47 different landing sites have been surveyed and approved for contingency recoveries. In each case, training and equipment has been provided to local personnel to safe and secure the orbiter pending the arrival of a recovery team from KSC.
AMBERLY: AUSTRALIA DARWIN: AUSTRALIA AMILCAR CABRAL: CAPE VERDE ARLANDA: SWEDEN BERMUDA NAS: BERMUDA BEN GUERIR: MOROCCO YUDUM: GAMBIA UPPER HAYFORD: ENGLAND (*) RAF FAIRFORD: ENGLAND (**) MILDENHALL : ENGLAND BRIZE-NORTON: ENGLAND WESTOVER AFB: MASSACHUSETTS OTIS ANGB: MASSACHUSETTS DOVER AFB: DELAWARE DYSS AFB: TEXAS EDWARDS AFB: CALIFORNIA MATAVERI: EASTER ISLAND ESENBOGA: TURKEY WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB: OHIO ZARAGOSA AB : SPAIN GRAN CANARIA: SPAIN MORON AB : SPAIN ANDERSEN AFB: GUAM GRISSON AFB: INDIANA MOUNTAIN HOME AFB: INDAHO HAO: FRENCH POLYNISIA HOEDSPRUIT AFS: SOUTH AFRICA HONOLULU: HAWAII DIEGO GARCIA NAF KOLN/BONN: GERMANY KIHSHASA/N DJILE: ZAIRE KING KHALID : SAUDI ARABIA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER: FLORIDA ORLANDO: FLORIDA LAJES AB: AZORES LINCOLN : NEBRESKA MONROVIA/ROBERTS: LIBERIA SOUDA: CRETE TAMANRASSET : ALGERIA NASSAU : BAHAMAS GRANT COUNTRY: WASHINGTON MYTRLE BEACH: SOUTH CAROLINA CHERRY POINT MCAS: NORTH CAROLINA WHITE SANDS MR : NEW MEXICO OCEANA NAS: VIRGINIA PLATTSBURG AFB: NEW YORK (***) PEASE AFB: NEW HAMPSHIRE (****) ELLSWORTH AFB: SOUTH DAKOTA
(*)Upper Heyford can be taken off the list, the base is now industrial units and a giant car park.
(**) RAF FAIRFORD took over from Upper Heyford but Fairford is currently u/s due to 2 year resurfacing of the runways.
(***)Plattsburg AFB, New York was closed in 1995.
(****)Pease AFB, New Hampshire was closed circa 1990,
From astronaut Don Lind: When I flew in April 1985 they had 37 locations pre programmed into the systems to act as potential abort sites.