Space shuttle Columbia was the oldest in NASA's orbiter fleet, and the first to go into space. Columbia was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in March 1979. Two years later, April 12, 1981, it ...
The first fully-functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center on March 25, 1979. Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International’s ...
On April 12, 1981, astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen blasted off on the maiden voyage of the space shuttle program inside the orbiter Columbia. It was the first of 135 shuttle launches. The ...