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STS-1
1981 Space Shuttle mission, first orbital flight of the Shuttle Columbia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
STS-1 was the first flight of the space shuttle. It launched on April 12, 1981 and landed on April 14. It was launched 20 years after the first manned space flight. The space shuttle used was Columbia. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the Earth 37 times in this mission.
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