george w bush
The first president to witness a spaceship launch into space firsthand was President Richard Nixon. He watched the Apollo 12 mission lift off from Kennedy Space Center on November 14, 1969.
Ronald Reagan was the president of the United States when the space shuttle Challenger tragically exploded shortly after liftoff on January 28, 1986.
A space shuttle's weight at liftoff is approximately 4.5 million pounds.
The Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986.
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Nixon
the frist president to watch a liftoff into his cabinet was GORGE W. BUSH
The first president to witness a spaceship launch into space firsthand was President Richard Nixon. He watched the Apollo 12 mission lift off from Kennedy Space Center on November 14, 1969.
Ronald Reagan was the president of the United States when the space shuttle Challenger tragically exploded shortly after liftoff on January 28, 1986.
A space shuttle's weight at liftoff is approximately 4.5 million pounds.
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The Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986.
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The space shuttle produced about 7.8 million pounds of thrust during liftoff.
A typical space shuttle weighs around 4.5 million pounds (2,041 metric tons) at liftoff.
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In April 1981, NASA conducted the first flight of the Space Shuttle program with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-1 mission. This marked the beginning of the Space Shuttle era for NASA's human spaceflight missions.