Columbia completed the first shuttle mission to orbit and back successfully and landed on April 14, 1981
The first space shuttle to launch to space and return was space shuttle Columbia on the 12th of April 1981, only 20 years after Yuri Gagarines historic voyage to space.
The first space shuttle was launch in 1981. Space shuttle missions do not stay in orbit, they are designed to return to Earth after missions generally lasting 1-2 weeks.
On April 12, 1981 the space shuttle Columbia was the first shuttle to orbit the Earth.
the first space shuttle returned to our planet earth in a basic manover of it falling off the moon and the giants that live in the forbidden mountains grabbed it out of the sky before it blew up and brought it back safetly to us.
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Columbia April 1981
John Glenn was the first person to orbit the Earth in 1962. He later became the oldest man in space in 1998 on the space shuttle Discovery.
From the time mission control gives the signal for the shuttle to re-enter and return to Earth, it takes about one hour for the whole process. The shuttle flies at 17,000 mph before the wheels hit the Earth.
Columbia was a Space Shuttle. Space Shuttles travel to an orbit around the Earth and return.
I think it is Apollo 17 but im not really sure.
It didn't. The Space Shuttle is only a low Earth orbit spacecraft.
The Space Shuttle refers to NASA's particular space plane, whereas a space plane encompasses all aircraft which takeoff from Earth's surface into space and then land on return.