STS-1
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sts-1-186-2828170
title:
STS-1
text:
STS-1 was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 37 times. Columbia carried a crew of two—commander John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen. It was the first American crewed space flight since the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in 1975. STS-1 was also the maiden test flight of a new American spacecraft to carry a crew, though it was prece
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
First Space Shuttle mission, first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1
date created:
2001-04-02T05:58:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T00:16:10Z
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