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Detailed explanation-1: -In the early morning hours of April 12, 1981, NASA launched is first Space Transportation System, or space shuttle, mission, carrying astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into orbit.

Detailed explanation-2: -What caused the space shuttle Columbia disaster? During the crew’s 16 days in space, NASA investigated a foam strike that took place during launch. About 82 seconds after Columbia left the ground, a piece of foam fell from a “bipod ramp” that was part of a structure that attached the external tank to the shuttle.

Detailed explanation-3: -When space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on its maiden voyage on April 12, 1981, a new era of spaceflight took wing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Space Shuttle Columbia landed on April 14, 1981 to conclude the first shuttle mission to space. The orbiter landed on the dirt Runway 23 on Rogers Dry Lake, which is adjacent to NASA’s Armstrong (then Dryden) Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.