Atlantis comes to FAUP (!)
There was one of those tales doing the rounds once that the BIG runway at Upington was an option for a space shuttle abort from orbit (apparently one of 3 around the world). I assume this is a nonsense, as presumably the dead stick flying manhole lid needs a very long ILS which would need to be checked by NASA prior to every flight, as well as no doubt a host of other technical stuff. Does that runway even have an ILS? Anybody else heard this tale before? And where ARE the 3 fields?
It might make a good plot for a short story?