Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Type: Test Flight
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission Description
STS-1 was the first orbital spaceflight of the Space Shuttle Program. The first orbiter Columbia took a 54.5 hour flight and circled the Earth 36 times. This was NASAs first craft to be manned during a testflight. Manned by John Young and Bob Crippen.
