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Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Pad A, Complex 39, 12 April 1981.
Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Pad A, Complex 39, 12 April 1981.
Credit: NASA
A timed exposure of the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1. The shuttle Columbia stands on launch pad A at Kennedy Space Center, the night before launch. The objectives of the maiden flight were to check out the overall Shuttle system, accomplish a safe ascent into orbit and to return to Earth for a safe landing.