Rocket Ranch - Episode 29: First Space Shuttle Flight

Update: 2021-04-07

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The spotlights came on in the predawn hours of April 12th 1981, illuminating a spacecraft like no other, the space shuttle. Just before liftoff, Columbia's crew climbed inside for the very first test flight into space.

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Rocket Ranch - Episode 29: First Space Shuttle Flight

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Rocket Ranch - Episode 29: First Space Shuttle Flight

Danielle Sempsrott

Rocket Ranch - Episode 29: First Space Shuttle Flight