STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...
The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.
Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...
On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle ...