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The space shuttle could, in an emergency, land at any airport having a runway at least 3km (about 10,000 feet) long.
There is a list of designated secondary landing sites, most of which are US Air Force Bases or military bases of allied countries, but a few of which are commercial airports with at least one suitable runway. For the most part, they're either low-traffic or could reasonably divert regular traffic to nearby airports while the shuttle landed. Probably the best-known US airport that is also a designated potential landing site for the shuttle is JFK airport in New York (JFK's inbound traffic could be diverted to one of the area's other major airports, if absolutely necessary).
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