Posted on 02/10/2003 9:07:07 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It was America's first space shuttle, the one that proved it could be done -- that people could blast into space on a rocket and land like an airplane.
The shuttle Columbia, known in NASA-speak as Orbiter Vehicle 102, got its name from a Boston-based sailing ship that sailed up the Columbia River in 1792 and later went around the world.
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