April 1981
The first space shuttle, Columbia, was launched on April 12, 1981.
Space Shuttle Columbia launched STS-1 on April 12th, 1981.
April 12th, 1981.
1981
The first space shuttle, Columbia, was launched on April 12, 1981.
The first shuttle, Columbia, was launched April 12, 1981. The last flight will be flown by Atlantis. It is scheduled for July 2011.
The name of the first space shuttle to ever launch was "Columbia." It launched on April 12, 1981.
Sergei Krikalev flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, launched on February 3, 1994
1984. The first launch was for mission STS-41D, which ran from August 30, 1984 to September 5, 1984.
The Challenger space shuttle was first launched on April 4, 1983.
It wasn't invented overnight. It took many years to come up with a design that worked. Research began even before we landed on the moon in 1969. The shuttle program was formally launched in 1972 and Columbia (designated OV-102), was delivered to Kennedy Space Center in 1979 with the first launch in 1981
On April 12, 1981 the Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-1, became the first space shuttle to orbit the Earth. It returned to earth two days later, and was returned to Kennedy Space Center fourtenn days after that. For more information on STS-1, visit: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-1/mission-sts-1.htmlSpace Shuttle Columbia launched on mission STS-1 on April 12, 1981. Space Shuttle Columbia launched on mission STS-1 on April 12, 1981.