"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
Has this blog turned into the History Channel? Does this mean all of man's greatest accomplishments all lie in the past? God I hope not!
Interesting article!