Discovery launch

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space shuttle launch

I remember sat in my junior school watching the first shuttle launching on April 12, 1981, it felt really exciting; just twenty years to the day after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System , taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development. #nasa #spaceshuttle #space #iss #orbit #earth

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Under a clear blue sky, Space Shuttle Discovery is ready for launch of mission STS-116 from Launch Pad 39B. Atop the fixed service structure at left looms the 80-foot-high lightning mast, part of the lightning protection system on the pad. Beneath Discovery's wings are the tail masts, which provide several umbilical connections to the orbiter, including a liquid-oxygen line through one and a liquid-hydrogen line through another. Seen above the golden external...

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