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NASA strongly prefers landing the shuttle at its specially constructed landing site at Kennedy Space Center, since landing it anywhere else requires that it be transported back to Kennedy for the next launch, and this is an expensive process (it's basically piggybacked on a specially modified 747). The only times a shuttle has landed anywhere other than the special landing facility in Florida have been at either Edwards Air Force Base in California or White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico.
The shuttle needs a runway approximately 10,000 feet long to land. Three of LAX's four runways could, in a dire emergency, serve (6L/24R is slightly too short). However, landing the shuttle at a commercial airport would disrupt normal operations and would additionally pose security problems; LAX is far too busy for it to be seriously considered as a potential landing site if any other options were available (and they are: there are several Air Force Bases within a couple of hundred miles of LAX, any of which would, from NASA's perspective, be a much better place to land and which are, from the shuttle's perspective, practically next door; one of them is Edwards, which as mentioned above has actually been used before.)
Probably the busiest airport which is a designated emergency landing facility for the shuttle is JFK in New York; other US commercial airports so designated include Bangor, ME, Lincoln, NE, and Orlando, FL.
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