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LAUNCH - STS-1 - KSC
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S81-30498 (12 April 1981) --- After six years of silence, the thunder of manned spaceflight is heard again, as the successful launch of the first space shuttle ushers in a new concept in utilization of space. The April 12, 1981 launch, at Pad 39A, just seconds past 7 a.m., carries astronaut John Young and Robert Crippen into an Earth-orbital mission scheduled to last for 54 hours, ending with unpowered landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineLAUNCH - STS-1 - KSC. NASA/JSC, 1981-04-12. Public domain. ID: S81-30498.
