CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, ...
In April 1981, John Young — America’s premier astronaut and one of only 12 people to ever walk on the Moon — was training with co-pilot Bob Crippen for STS-1, the maiden voyage of space shuttle ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - It’s now been 40 years since the maiden flight of space shuttle Columbia, the first flight of a reusable spacecraft and the inaugural mission of the 30-year space shuttle ...
HOUSTON — How many of us grew up staring into the night sky, wondering about space, about the stars, about the unknown? Well, Stokes McMillan did too. "As a kid, I grew up wanting to be in the space ...
Space Shuttle Columbia made its first voyage into space 40 years ago today on April 12, 1981, starting the shuttle program’s 30-year run as NASA’s workhorse of human space flight. At 7 a.m. – right on ...
Columbia's maiden flight on April 12, 1981, marked the inception of NASA's Space Shuttle Program and established it as the first reusable spacecraft to achieve Earth orbit. The shuttle's early ...
March 11, 2018, marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the first space shuttle from Kennedy Space Center. Most of you probably think the first shuttle launched on April 12, 1981, but that’s not ...
HOUSTON — How many of us grew up staring into the night sky, wondering about space, about the stars, about the unknown? Well, Stokes McMillan did too. "As a kid, I grew up wanting to be in the space ...
On April 12, 1981, astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen blasted off on the maiden voyage of the space shuttle program inside the orbiter Columbia. It was the first of 135 shuttle launches. The ...