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Enterprise was the first space shuttle orbiter built but it was used only for flight tests and was not capable of going into space. Columbia was the first orbiter built which was space worthy and launched on STS-1

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What was the first space shuttle ever built?

Enterprise was the first space shuttle built, though it never made it into space.


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