Rockwell International News & 10th Anniversary NASA Pin of Shuttle Flight STS-1

Description

Rockwell International News & NASA 10
th
Anniversary of Space Shuttle Flight STS-1
April 12, 1991 Rockwell News
Rocketdyne Edition
(the builders of the Space Shuttle Main Engines) “Happy Anniversary Space Shuttle!” Pictures, Stories, and Facts about STS-1 and Space Shuttle
Also included is an original NASA, Manned Flight Awareness Pin commemorating the First Flight of Space Shuttle mission STS-1 April 12-14, 1981.
Both Rockwell News and 10
th
Anniversary Pin are in Excellent Condition
Please see all attached pictures
Shipping includes a Tracking Number
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.