Apr 12, 2021
Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen boldly pioneered NASA's space shuttle program when they sat aboard the Columbia orbiter on April 12, 1981 - the first launch of a complete (and untested!) reusable spacecraft system. Movie fans may have already been familiar with how it would all work though, as we'll explore in this intersection of science fiction and science fact.
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