Discoveryis now poised to launch its STS-121 crew, commanded by shuttle veteran ... Out on Foam Concerns STS-121 Crew to Fly on July 1 Return to Flight: NASA's Road to STS-121 Join our Space ...

17). [NASA's First Space Shuttle Flight: STS-1 (Photos)] "Here was a brand new vehicle, [that weighed] a couple of hundred thousand pounds at landing. [It] had never been through ascent or been ...

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 technical delay scrubbed the first STS-1 launch attempt, moving it to April 12. Scrubs due to weather and technical delays are part of launching any rocket -- especially a new vehicle.

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 ...

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 ...