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Title: Space Shuttle Columbia Catalog #: 15_000842 Date: 1992 Creation Place: Kennedy Space Flight Center, Cape Canaveral ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Pad39B Collection: Charles M. Daniels Collection Photo Album Name: Florida, 1992 II Page #: 12 Tags: Space Shuttle Columbia, Pad39B PUBLIC COMMONS.SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

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this day in history - space shuttle columbia, vol 2 by john w kreisner

On April 12th, 1981, NASA launched the first space shuttle, Columbia, designed to orbit Earth transport people and cargo to and from an orbiting spacecraft. Then glide to a runway landing on its return to Earth. NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons #thisdayinhistory #history #spaceshuttlecolumbia

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The chaotic final moments of the doomed space shuttle Columbia have been detailed in a report by NASA. All seven were killed as it disintegrated on re-entering the Earth's atmosphere with a hole in its wing.

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two men in blue uniforms walking up stairs to a space shuttle on the tarmac

Separation of space shuttle Columbia's external tank, photographed by motion picture cameras in the umbilical bays, occurred following the shutdown of the vehicle's three main engines after a successf

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an airplane with the space shuttle on it's back

The rear wheels of the space shuttle orbiter Columbia touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base, NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (then Dryden), California, to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days. Astronauts John W. Young, STS-1 commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, were aboard the vehicle.

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18 February 1977: The prototype space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101) made its first captive flight aboard NASA 905, the Boeing 747-123 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. On this flight, no one was aboard Enterprise. NASA 905 was flown by Aircraft Commander Fitzhugh L. Fulton, Jr., Pilot Thomas C. McMurty, and Flight Engineers Louis E. Guidry, Jr. and Victor … Continue reading 18 February 1977 →

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