Space Shuttle Columbia First Launch and Landing

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1. It's a shame they couldn't land like a harrier jump jet that would have been awesome don't you think folks !
2. Internet , iPhones here we come
3. Landing a 100 ton glider with no engine power takes major skill, if you look at the runway the front tire left a perfect straight line. MAJOR SKILL .YOUNG AND CRIPPIN THE TWO BRAVEST MEN EVER.
4. i got a question, do the engines come back on during the landing or does it glide? i just want to know. I can imagine it glides and comes back on just before landing.
5. I was watching...along with my own heart...America's heart was "bursting with pride!"  After all...the Space Shuttle was "something new and something new to be proud of."
6. John Young, what a pro
7. +DerCooleOnkeCharlie Yeah, wouldn't that make sense?
8. i miss Columbia...
9. There's one thing i wonder about. Why the roll program? Wouldnt it be smarter to put the shuttle in the right angle from the beginning?
10. this as actually the 2nd landing of the shuttle, the very first one was on traning.
11. Probably the most beautiful landing of them all...the first one!
12. My heart was not the only "American heart" that was bursting with pride...especially the "perfect landing"...really was "some kind of thrill."
13. I STILL cry when I watch this..... = P
14. None of the external tanks were painted after STS-2. It's possible that the video or photo you looked at had inaccurate color, or maybe it was just a particularly reddish orange hue on that batch of insulating foam.
15. Does anyone notice the tiles that were taken off
16. "what a way to come to california!" HA
17. @likeplaneboy that was the Star Spangled Banner, it is the national anthem of the United States. I still get chills watching this and every landing!
18. If Columbia was still around she'd be landing at Edwards today to go into a museum in Socal. the pride of palmdale
19. I was at the landing. Thanks to great grandparents who valued exposing their grandson to science at an early age. Columbia, she was a good ship. 
20. Peccato che gli Stati Uniti abbiano preferito destinare le loro risorse alla guerra, pensate cosa avrebbero potuto fare con i miliardi di dollari spesi per distruggere altri Stati sovrani che mai avevano attaccato gli USA.....