STS-1: In this image, the two solid rocket boosters are aglow after being jettisoned.Courtesy NASAApril 12, 1981 was the date of the first space shuttle launch. I remember it.
From NASA:
On April 12, 1981, astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen launched into space on space shuttle Columbia on the STS-1 mission--NASA's first mission aboard a reusable spacecraft. STS-1 was NASA's first manned mission since the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
that was interesting!
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