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On April 12, 1981, a bright white Columbia roared into a deep blue sky as the nation's first reusable Space Shuttle.
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Columbia (OV-102), the first of NASA's orbiter fleet, was delivered to Kennedy Space Center in March 1979. Columbia initiated the Space Shuttle flight program when it lifted off Pad A in the Launch Complex 39 area at KSC on April 12, 1981. It proved the operational concept of a winged, reusable spaceship by...
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In the day-to-day world of Shuttle operations and processing, Space Shuttle orbiters go by a more prosaic designation. Columbia is commonly refered to as OV-102, for Orbiter Vehicle-102. Empty Weight was 158,289 lbs at rollout and 178,000 lbs with main engines installed.
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Space Shuttle Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'Space Shuttle Columbia (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102 ') was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space ...
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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 'Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ' occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, with the loss of all se...
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