1981 NASA File Copy, STS-1 Technical Crew Debriefing Transcript, Young & Crippen

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NOTE:  WE JUST ACQUIRED A GREAT WEALTH OF NASA SPACE SHUTTLE RELATED ITEMS WHICH WE WILL BE POSTING ONLINE IN THE COMING WEEKS.  SOME ITEMS SUCH AS THIS ARE EXTREMELY RARE.
This is a great historic NASA collectible.  This is my only copy.... I have no more.
This is the
Columbia
crew debriefing transcript for the first orbital space shuttle flight (STS-1).  This transcript is in its original three ring binder and is filled with Q&A transcript notes regarding the flight, from take-off to re-entry and everything in between (including all the mundane procedures and observations).  This is not a reproduction, but an authentic file copy from NASA dated April 1981.  Front cover page is signed in black Sharpie by the two space shuttle astronauts, John Young and Robert "Bob" Crippen.
This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime find; a must have for NASA memorabilia collectors and worth far more than my auction opening.
228 pages.
BACKGROUND:
STS-1
(Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter,
Columbia
, launched on 12 April 1981 and returned on 14 April, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 36 times.
Columbia
carried a crew of two – mission commander John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen. It was the first American crewed space flight since the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project in 1975. STS-1 was also the only maiden test flight of a new American spacecraft to carry a crew, though it was preceded by atmospheric testing of the orbiter and ground testing of the Space Shuttle system.
The launch occurred on the 20th anniversary of the first human spaceflight, performed by Yuri Gagarin for the USSR. This was a coincidence rather than a celebration of the anniversary; a technical problem had prevented STS-1 from launching two days earlier, as was planned.