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STS-1
Major mission was first Shuttle Mission/Shuttle Systems Test Flight. Containing Commander John W. Young and Pilot Robert L. Crippen. Demonstrate safe launch into orbit and safe return of the orbiter and crew. They returned April 18, 1981 when they had coplete their missions and return home safely. -
STS-30
They sts 30 take offDavid M. Walker , Commander,Ronald J. Grabe , PilotNorman E. Thagard , Mission Specialist Mary L. Cleave , Mission Specialist ,Mark C. Lee , Mission Specialist. The launch scheduled was for April 28. There was a proplem and the repairs were due for May 4. the plane landed on May 8, 1989, This is the first time a GPC was switched on orbit. This flight was a sucsess -
Clombia 2003 Sad Tragity :(
THE CRASHContaining Commander Rick Husband, Pilot Willie McCool, Payload Commander Michael Anderson, Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon. Their mission was to perform experments that they were told to do. Columbia and crew were lost during reentry over East Texas at about 9 a.m. EST, Scincentist tried and tried to figure out what went wrong, they say that their calcuations were off. This was a very sad tragity but we had to get over it -
STS-114
Containing Commander Eileen Collins, Pilot James Kelly, Mission Specialists Charles Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Soichi Noguchi, Stephen Robinson and Andrew Thomas. STS-114 was the first Return to Flight mission since the tragic loss of Columbia Feb. 1, 2003. Two and a half years were spent researching and implementing safety improvements for orbiters and external tanks. -
STS-131
STS 31The seven-member crew, consisting of Poindexter, Pilot James P. Dutton Jr., and Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio, Clayton Anderson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson, and Japan’s Naoko Yamazaki, joined the six residents of the International Space Station two days after launch.
