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April 14, 1981: Columbia space shuttle returns to Earth after first flight
"And we have liftoff, liftoff of America's first space shuttle!" The Columbia shuttle, mission STS-1, takes off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 12, 1981. That's what Hugh Harris, NASA's launch commentator, told the world when Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 12th, 1981. "The shuttle has cleared the tower." Columbia was the first re-usable spacecraft for humankind and marked...
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