First Space Shuttle Launch
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STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on 12 April 1981 and returned on 14 April, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 37 times. Columbia carried a crew of two – mission commander John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen. It was the first American manned space flight since the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. STS-1 was also the only maiden test flight of a new US spacecraft to carry a crew, though it was preceded by atmospheric testing of the orbiter and ground testing of the space shuttle system.
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How can you convert low quality into supposed HD? You can't
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I am so glad my mind is free I do not have to believe the b***** from the people that brought you the Tuskegee experiment, from the people that brought you feeding children radioactive isotopes in there cereal, from the people that brought you South Vietnam me Lai massacre, from the people that brought you the fake gunboat attack against a Navy
ship off the coast of North Vietnam and many other hoaxes throughout history, from the people that brought over Nazi scientist that commit terrible atrocities against Jewish workers at the underground Nazis rocket Factory,"they conjure up lies you decide" NASA lying through their teeth since 1946 they bring you the old ancient technology of using a gasoline sealed tube homemade bottle rocket and blasted it off into the space at least they say they did what countries up space since man has never left the boundaries of the top of Stratosphere that's okay keep drinking your purple Kool-Aid idiot! -
It's a tragedy we retired this program without a BETTER one in place!
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when america was great, we need to give nasa as much money as we can
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unbelievable to me that there's honestly complete fuckin morons out there that think this was filmed in a Hollywood studio.
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Bambi
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remember running home from school to see this
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The atmospheric testing and ground testing was done by the Enterprise.
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I miss the shuttle program.
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ya just a fake bottle rocket
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this was amazing to watch up close, I really don't know why they scrapped the shuttle. Sure there were some major problems but this is high risk anyway. Anytime you strap a rocket on to anthing things can and will go wrong at some point. Look at all the airplane disasters yet they're still flying some very old aircraft. How many would feel comfortable in the Ford Tri-Motor?
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