STS-1 Launch
April 12th, 2012
10:37 AM ET
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STS-1 Launch

"On April 12, 1981, astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen launched into space on space shuttle Columbia on the STS-1 mission–NASA's first mission aboard a reusable spacecraft. STS-1 was NASA's first manned mission since the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.

In this image, the two solid rocket boosters are aglow after being jettisoned."

Source: NASA

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