THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Space Shuttle Columbia Lifts Off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 1981
Forty years ago, on April 12, 1981, NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, attached to an external tank and twin solid rocket boosters, lifted off on the first shuttle mission, STS-1, at 7 a.m. Eastern, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]
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