CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - It’s now been 40 years since the maiden flight of space shuttle Columbia, the first flight of a reusable spacecraft and the inaugural mission of the 30-year space shuttle ...

In April 1981, John Young — America’s premier astronaut and one of only 12 people to ever walk on the Moon — was training with co-pilot Bob Crippen for STS-1, the maiden voyage of space shuttle ...

A revolution in space travel came to NASA on April 12, 1981—the space shuttle. The shuttle was different than anything NASA had ever created before because it was able to launch on a rocket and land ...

HOUSTON — How many of us grew up staring into the night sky, wondering about space, about the stars, about the unknown? Well, Stokes McMillan did too. "As a kid, I grew up wanting to be in the space ...

March 11, 2018, marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the first space shuttle from Kennedy Space Center. Most of you probably think the first shuttle launched on April 12, 1981, but that’s not ...

On April 12, 1981, astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen blasted off on the maiden voyage of the space shuttle program inside the orbiter Columbia. It was the first of 135 shuttle launches. The ...