Dawn of the Space Shuttle Era

Monday, April 11, 2011 - 17:30 in Astronomy & Space

The sun rises over Kennedy Space Center as space shuttle Columbia awaits the start of STS-1, the first space shuttle mission, which launched on April 12, 1981.

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