STS-1-Space Shuttle flight # 1 aboard Columbia launched from Pad 39A on April 12, 1981; landed April 14, 1981 at Edwards Air Force Base, California after a duration of 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes, and 53 seconds and traveling 1.074 million miles with Commander John W. Young and Pilot Robert L. Crippen aboard; this was a Shuttle Systems Test Flight and the first shuttle mission
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| - STS-1-Space Shuttle flight # 1 aboard Columbia launched from Pad 39A on April 12, 1981; landed April 14, 1981 at Edwards Air Force Base, California after a duration of 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes, and 53 seconds and traveling 1.074 million miles with Commander John W. Young and Pilot Robert L. Crippen aboard; this was a Shuttle Systems Test Flight and the first shuttle mission
- The launch occurred on the 20th anniversary of the first-ever human spaceflight. This was a coincidence rather than a celebration of the anniversary; a technical problem had prevented STS-1 from launching two days earlier, as was planned.
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| - John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen
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| - Timing problem in one of Columbia’s general-purpose computers.
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| - STS-1-Space Shuttle flight # 1 aboard Columbia launched from Pad 39A on April 12, 1981; landed April 14, 1981 at Edwards Air Force Base, California after a duration of 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes, and 53 seconds and traveling 1.074 million miles with Commander John W. Young and Pilot Robert L. Crippen aboard; this was a Shuttle Systems Test Flight and the first shuttle mission
- The launch occurred on the 20th anniversary of the first-ever human spaceflight. This was a coincidence rather than a celebration of the anniversary; a technical problem had prevented STS-1 from launching two days earlier, as was planned.
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