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STS-1
Space Shuttle · Test Flight
1981Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
Mission
STS-1 was the first orbital spaceflight of the Space Shuttle Program. The first orbiter Columbia took a 54.5 hour flight and circled the Earth 36 times. This was NASAs first craft to be manned during a testflight. Manned by John Young and Bob Crippen.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2