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Air Force photograph
This high angle view shows the scene at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California soon after the successful landing of the space shuttle orbiter Columbia to end STS-1. Service vehicles approach the spacecraft to perform evaluations for safety, egress preparedness, etc. Astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, are still inside the spacecraft.
outings.
Young’s career was full of firsts, none more
notable than in April 1981, when he commanded Space Shuttle Columbia on its — and the Shut- tle program’s — maiden flight, STS-1. It was the first time a piloted spacecraft was tested in space without previous unpiloted orbital flights. Y oung and pilot Robert Crippen accomplished more than 130 flight test objectives during their almost 55-hour mission.
In late 1983 Young commanded STS-9, the first Spacelab mission. During the 10-day flight, the six crewmembers worked around the clock in 12-hour shifts, involved in more than 70 ex- periments in a range of scientific disciplines. The mission returned more scientific and tech- nical data than all the Apollo and Skylab mis- sions combined.
See YOUNG, Page 16
The STS-1 crew; John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen.
NASA photograph
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