1981
The space shuttle program was initiated on January 5, 1972 with President Nixon's announcement that NASA would begin development on a manned reusable space shuttle system. The first complete orbiter, Enterprise, was completed on September 17, 1976. The first fully functional space shuttle, Columbia, was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center on March 25, 1979. Columbia's first launch was on April 12, 1981.
The Space Shuttle program began in 1981 with the launch of STS-1, the first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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The first launch was April 12th, 1981.
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because it started a new mission.
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The shuttle never has and never will orbit the moon.
You can begin your first mission once you receive the details of the mission on your message board from Zapallar. You will receive this mission once you have confirmed that you wish to be in the program and you have been accepted. This message will contain your mission start date. Anything that you do for the mission before that date will not count towards the mission.