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Space Shuttle Columbia launching

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Space Shuttle Columbia launching — archival photograph
The April 12 launch at Pad 39A of STS-1 , just seconds past 7 a.m., carries astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into an Earth orbital mission scheduled to last for 54 hours, ending with unpowered landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The year

1981
Photographer
NASA
Date
1981
Licence
Public domain
Source
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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