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during preparations for the first flight (STS-1) of NASA's new reusable spacecraft system. This photo was taken in March 1981 ahead of Columbia's April 12, 1981 launch. A remote camera at the ...

After years of delays, STS-1 was finally scheduled for launch on April 10, 1981. But a computer problem scrubbed that first launch attempt, so NASA tried again – successfully – two days later.

April 12-14, 1981 - STS-1 is the first space shuttle mission. The Columbia orbits Earth 37 times before landing. The shuttle was called Columbia after the Columbia River which was named by boat ...

Columbia was originally scheduled to lift off in late 1979, however the launch date was delayed with several problems. If STS-1 had launched in March 1979 as originally scheduled "we'd have been ...

A month before STS-1, as Columbia sat on Pad 39A at ... of Yuri Gagarin’s first human spaceflight on Vostok 1. One minute before launch, the shuttle’s three main engines — which blew up ...