NASA Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
To escape the earth one must travel 33 times the speed of sound. Mach 33.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts132/multimedia/gallery/Touchdown.html
This ties to the 33 as the number of transcendence of the material world to enter the celest…
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