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In the early morning hours of April 12, 1981, NASA launched its first Space Transportation System, or space shuttle, mission, carrying astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into orbit.
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More than three decades after it broke apart and all seven people aboard were tragically killed, a piece of the wrecked space shuttle, the Challenger, was discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.
>> first time i saw "columbia" and got close to it, my whole thought was, oh my god, it's big. and this is going to go 17,500 miles per hour? >> more than half a million people crowded the beaches around cape kennedy this morning if witness firsthand the first space shuttle launch. >> t-minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four -- we've gone for main engine start -- >> we added a giant fuel tank to it and two solid rocket boosters that are the largest pop bottle rockets on the planet. when you light that puppy, it's going somewhere. >> america's first space shuttle. and the shuttle has cl...
That this thing ever actually works. but they have fixed, it appears, that first hydrogen leak that they encountered on monday. so this is a new hydrogen leak in a different place. and you know, part of the reason that this is such a troublesome spot for nasa and the entire artemis team right now is because of liquid hydrogen itself. hydrogen is the smallest molecule in the universe. it is notoriously difficult to deal with because it's so small, it's, of course, very easy to leak. and so this is the same type of fuel that they used during the shuttle program. nasa, as an organization, is very...