Space shuttle Columbia, the vehicle for the first space shuttle mission, moves out of the Vehicle Assembly Building for the…
The move of space shuttle Columbia from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad A at Launch Complex 39 was monitored…
The STS-1 vehicle — consisting of America’s first reusable spaceship, space shuttle Columbia, the external propellant tank and twin solid…
America’s first reusable spaceship, space shuttle Columbia, approaches Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A.
The first space shuttle destined to fly in space moves toward Pad A at Launch Complex 39, where it lifted…
Astronauts for the first space shuttle mission, Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen, take a break from their intensive…
A space shuttle solid rocket booster retrieval acceptance test is conducted at sea.
The space shuttle Columbia, piggyback on its 747 carrier aircraft, is only seconds away from a touchdown at Kennedy Space…
President Jimmy Carter, with wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy, listen to Lee R. Scherer, center director from 1974 to 1979,…
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the space shuttle mock-up, dubbed Pathfinder, undergoes a lift test in the Vehicle…
