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Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, at the beginning of STS-1, the first space shuttle mission. Photo by NASA.
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Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, at the beginning of STS-1, the first space shuttle mission. Photo by NASA.