Jan 2, 1959
The first space shuttle, Columbia, was launched on April 12, 1981.
The first NASA space shuttle mission, STS-1, took place at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 12, 1981. The mission was launched from Launch Complex 39A.
The first astronaut of Indian origin was Kalpana Chawla whose first mission with NASA was in 1997. The first India person in space, though, was Rakesh Sharma who on a Soviet mission in 1984.
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.
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The first space shuttle, Columbia, was launched on April 12, 1981.
The first NASA space shuttle mission, STS-1, took place at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 12, 1981. The mission was launched from Launch Complex 39A.
The first astronaut of Indian origin was Kalpana Chawla whose first mission with NASA was in 1997. The first India person in space, though, was Rakesh Sharma who on a Soviet mission in 1984.
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.
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Karol J. Bobko
No Mercury 1 was not the first NASA mission, though the the Mercury project was NASA's first project, the first mission in the Mercury project and therefore the first NASA mission was Mercury-Big Joe launched on September 9, 1959.
The commander of the NASA mission that first took a slinky into space was Captain John W. Young. He was the commander of the Gemini 10 mission in July 1966, where the slinky was used to demonstrate the effects of microgravity. The mission aimed to conduct various experiments and was notable for its contributions to space exploration.
Karol J. Bobko
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NASA took a slinky into space on mission STS-51-F, also known as Space Shuttle Challenger mission in 1985. The slinky was used to demonstrate principles of microgravity in space.