STS-1, the maiden orbital flight of NASA Space Shuttle Columbia with commander John Young and pilot Robert Crippen. Liftoff from Kennedy LC-39A on the 20th anniversary of Gagarin’s flight; two-day test mission with 37 orbits before landing at Edwards.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.8 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 12 April 1981, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1981-034
- Launches in 1981
- 36th of 126
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