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STS-1
1981 Space Shuttle mission, first orbital flight of the Shuttle Columbia
Details
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Followed by
- STS-2
- apoapsis
- 266 km
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
- backup or reserve team or crew
- Joe Engle, Richard H. Truly
- crew members
- John Young, Robert Crippen
- described by source
- Retro Space HD, Retro Space HD
- duration
- 195653
- location of landing
- Edwards Air Force Base
- mass
- 99452, 88661, 4909
- orbital inclination
- 40.3
- orbital period
- 89.88
- orbits completed
- 2888
- periapsis
- 271 km
- significant event
- rocket launch, landing
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- topic's main category
- Category:STS-1
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 14 April 1981
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 12 April 1981
- vessel
- Columbia
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