STS-1 File Footage for 40th Anniversary
The Space Shuttle Columbia began a new era of manned spaceflight when it lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on STS-1, the inaugural flight in the Space Shuttle Program on April 12, 1981. Aboard the spacecraft were astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot.
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