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PIX4646418: STS crew - 1 04/1979 - STS - 1 crew training - The STS mission crew - 1 in training. From g. to d.: John Young (Commanding Officer) and Robert Crippen (Pilot). April 1979. John Young, commander and Robert Crippen, pilot, are the prime crew members for NASA's first Space Shuttle flight, STS-1. Here, they are logging time in the Shuttle orbiter Columbia in the orbiter processing facility at the Kennedy Space Center. Apr 1979 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646649: Decollage Challenger STS - 6 04/1983 - First launch of the Challenger space shuttle - 04/1983 - Launch of the Shuttle Challenger STS - 6 for its first flight. The first flight of Challenger space shuttle on mission STS-6. The primary payload is the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite - 1. The mission also is using the first lightweight external tank and lightweight solid rocket booster casings. The crew included Commander Paul J. Weitz, Pilot Karol J. Bobko, and Mission Specialists Donald H. Peterson and F. Story Musgrave. April 4 198 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646654: STS-1: Return of astronauts - 04/1981 - STS - 1: The comeback of J. Young and R. Crippen 04/1981 - Pilot Robert Crippen leaves space shuttle Columbia. John Young, released earlier, is visible at the bottom of the picture. Mission STS-1. Edwards Air Force Base, California. 14/04/1981. Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, pilot for the STS - 1 flight, egresses the NASA space shuttle following touchdown of the Columbia on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Astronaut John W. Young, crew commander, had earlier exited the craft and can be seen standing at the foot of the steps with George W. S. Abbey, director of flight operations at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Dr. Craig L. Fischer, chief of the medical operations branch in JSC's medical sciences division, follows Crippen down the steps. 14 April 1981 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646670: Exit extra - vehicular 04/1983 - Astronauts extravehicular activity. 04/1983 - Exit extra - vehicle for astronauts Story Musgrave (left) and Don Peterson on April 7, 1983. Astronauts Story Musgrave, left, and Don Peterson float in the cargo bay of the Earth - orbiting space shuttle Challenger during their April 7, 1983, spacewalk on the STS - 6 mission. Their” floating” is restricted via tethers to safety slide wires. Thanks to the tether and slide wire combination, Peterson is able to translate, or move, along the port side hand rails. First called STA-099, Challenger was built to serve as a test vehicle for the Space Shuttle program. Challenger, the second orbiter to join Nasa's Space Shuttle fleet, arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 1982. Challenger launched on her maiden voyage, STS - 6, on April 4, 1983 and saw the first spacewalk of the shuttle program, as well as the deployment of the first satellite - - the Tracking and Data Relay System. The orbiter launched the first American woman, Sally Ride, into space on mission STS - 7 and was the first to carry two U.S. female astronauts on mission STS - 41 - G. The first orbiter to launch and land at night on mission STS - 8, Challenger also made the first Space Shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center, concluding mission STS 41 - B. Spacelabs 2 and 3 flew aboard the ship on missions STS 51 - F and STS 51 - B, as did the first German - dedicated Spacelab on STS 61 - A. A host of scientific experiments and satellite deployments were performed during Challenger's missions. Challenger's service to America's space program ended in tragedy on Jan. 28, 1986. Just 73 seconds into mission STS - 51L, a booster failure caused an explosion that resulted in the loss of seven astronauts, as well as the vehicle / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646707: Shuttle Challenger - STS - 7 06/1983 - Space shuttle Challenger in space taken by the SPAS satellite - Shuttle Challenger STS - 7 in orbit from SPAS 01A (Shuttle Pallet Satellite). 27/06/1983. Challenger in space, seen beyond the Earth's horizon, taken by the SPAS satellite. Its cargo bay is open, revealing its contents. Visible in the cargo bay are the protective cradles for the Palapa - B and Telesat F. communications satellites, the pallet for the NASA Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications (OSTA - 2), the remote manipulator system (RMS) arm in the shape of the numeral seven and the KU - band antenna. A number of getaway special (GAS) canisters are also visible along the port side / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646720: Lighting on Challenger STS - 8 08/1983 - Lightning strikes Space Shuttle Challenger - Lightning on the firing pitch before launching the Challenger STS shuttle - 8. 08/1983. Lightning strikes Space Shuttle Launch Complex 39A in the hours preceding the launch of Challenger on mission STS-8. Aug 1983 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646784: Decolving the Atlantis shuttle - 12/1988 - Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. Dec 02 1988 - Decolving the Atlantis shuttle (Mission STS - 27) with Bob Gibson, Guy Gardner, Richard Mullane, Jerry Ross and William Shepherd on board. 02/12/1988. The space shuttle Atlantis and its five - man crew of astronauts are launched from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39B at 9:30 a.m. (EST), Dec. 2, 1988. Onboard the Department of Defense dedicated mission are astronauts Robert L. Gibson, Guy S. Gardner, Jerry L. Ross, Richard M. (Mike) Mullane and Williams M. Shepherd / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646797: The external reservoir, separated from the shuttle Discovery, falls back to Earth. 03 - 1989. - This STS - 29 mission onboard photo depicts the External Tank falling towards the ocean after separation from the Shuttle orbiter Discovery. The giant cylinder, higher than a 15 - story building, with a length of 154 - feet (47 - meters) and a diameter of 27.5 - feet (8.4 - meters), is the largest single piece of the Space Shuttle / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646799: Charles Bolden - Mission STS - 31 - Charles Bolden - STS - 31 pilot - Portrait of Charles F. Bolden Jr, pilot of the STS-31 mission, which took place from 24 April 1990 to 29 April 1990 (placing the Hubble space telescope in orbit). Portrait of Charles F. Bolden, Jr., pilot of the space shuttle Discovery which launched the Hubble Space Telescope astronomical observatory into Earth orbit. Mission STS-31 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646822: Discovery Shuttle Discovery 04/1990 - Launch of Shuttle Discovery STS - 31. Apr 24 1990 - Decolation of the shuttle Discovery (STS-31 mission) with Loren Shriver, Charles Bolden, Steven Hawley, Bruce McCandless and Kathryn Sullivan on board as well as the Hubble space telescope. 24/04/1990. The Space Shuttle Discovery soars into the morning skies above Florida, carying a crew of five and the Hubble Space Telescope. Launch of Space Shuttle Mission STS - 31from Pad 39B occurred at 8:33:51 a.m. EDT, April 24. Crew members are Commander Loren J. Shriver; Pilot Charles F. Bolden Jr.; and Mission Specialists Kathryn D. Sullivan, Steven A. Hawley, and Bruce McCandless II / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646868: Shuttle Columbia and the Great Lakes - 06/1991 - Great Lakes seen from Columbia space shuttle - Shuttle Columbia STS-40 orbiting over Lake Michigan (in the center of the picture). June 1991. STS - 40 Columbia above portions of all five Great Lakes, Lake Michigan can be seen in the center of the photograph. Jun 199 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646906: Astronaut Roberta Bondar in Spacelab 01/1992 - Astronaut Roberta Bondar works with oak seedlings - Roberta Bondar in the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1), experiments the effects of microgravite on oak plants. 01/1992. STS-42 Payload Specialist Roberta L. Bondar works with oak seedlings using the glovebox located in International Microgravity Laboratory 1 (IML-1) Rack 5. The five young plants are part of the Gravitational Plant Physiology Facility experiment. IML - 1 is located in Discovery's, Orbiter Vehicle, payload bay and is connected to the crew compartment with a tunnel. 01/199 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4646964: STS-47: Weightless crew in Spacelab - STS-47 crew portrait in zero gravity: The crew of the STS-47 mission poses weightlessly in the Spacelab aboard the shuttle Endeavour. From left to right, in the last row: Robert L. Gibson and Curtis L. Brown, in the middle: N. Jan Davis, Jerome Apt and Mae C. Jemison, in front: Mark C. Lee and Mamoru Mohri. It was during this mission that Mae C. Jemison was the first black woman in space and Mark C. Lee and Jan Davis were the first American married couple to fly into space. Portrait of the crew of STS-47 aboard Spacelab-Japan (SLJ). Pictured, left to right, back row are Commander Robert L. Gibson and Pilot Curtis L. Brown; middle row, Mission Specialist (MS) N. Jan Davis, MS Jerome Apt and MS Mae C. Jemison; front row, Payload Commander (PLC) Mark C. Lee and Payload Specialist (PS) Mamoru Mohri. / Bridgeman Images