On this day 45 years ago: touchdown of the first Space Shuttle Mission

April 14, 1981, Columbia (STS-1) lands on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days.

https://flic.kr/p/2s7sXs9

#SpaceShuttle #STS1 #Columbia #space #science #history #HistoryOfScience #NASA #OTD #astrodon

#TUWien:
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Ein Satellit aus Wien hebt ab

TU Wien Space Team bringt heute einen selbst entwickelten Satelliten mit Bildungsmission ins All.
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"Wenn am 21. Jänner 2026 eine Rakete vom Typ „Spectrum“ ins All startet, reist ein besonderer Satellit mit: STS1, der erste vollständig eigenständig entwickelte Satellit des TU Wien Space Teams."

https://www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktuelles/news/news/ein-satellit-aus-wien-hebt-ab

21.1.2026

#Cubesat #Isaraerospace #OnwardAndUpward #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SpaceFlight #Spectrum #STS1 #Wien

#GaurkoEgunez bi mugarri ezarri ziren espazioaren historian.

1961: Yuri Gagarin kosmonauta, Lurra orbitatu zuen lehen gizakia bilakatu zen. (#Vostok1)

1981: Columbia espazio anezka, John Young eta Bob Crippen NASAko astronautekin aireratu zen lehen aldiz.
(#STS1)

#Espazioa

After the first two shuttle missions, NASA stopped painting the fuel tank white to save weight - making the vehicle about 270kg (600lb) lighter.

#science #sciencefacts #spaceshuttle #shuttle #paint #weight #sts1 #sts2

#GaurkoEgunez 1972. urtean, #Apolo16 misioa jaurti zen. Ilargian lurreratu zen azkenaurreko misioa gaur arte.

Tripulazioa: Thomas Mattingly (#Apolo16, #STS4, #STS51C), John Young (#Gemini3, #Gemini10, #Apolo10, #Apolo16, #STS1, #STS9) eta Charlie Duke. (#Apolo16)

#Espazioa #Ilargia

Also today, 20 coincidental years after the launch of the first #SpaceShuttle with #STS1, was the launch of #Vostok1

That 1961 mission saw #YuriGagarin become the first human to fly into #space, orbit the Earth, and return again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1