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OV-102 (Columbia)
April 12-14, 1981

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Launch:
April 12, 1981
7:00 am EST
Pad 39-A
Landing:
April 14, 1981
10:20am PST
Runway 23
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

"Young and Crippen wore pressurized safety suits on that first flight, and they were strapped into ejection seats that appeared almost as lethal as the potential disasters they were designed to allow the astronauts to escape."
- Joseph P. Allen, "Entering Space", pg 59
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Young and Crippen in slidewire training
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Logging time in the orbiter

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Columbia was named after a Navy sailing frigate. Launched in 1836, it was one of the first Navy ships to circumnavigate the globe.

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