Rseferino Orbiter Filmmaker's video: STS-1 Columbia - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2010

Facebook. Advances, pictures, details, comments: http://www.facebook.com/orbiterfilmmaker STS-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 37 times. Columbia carried a crew of two – mission commander John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen. The launch occurred on the 20th anniversary of the first-ever human spaceflight, Vostok 1. 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. Landing occurred on Runway 23 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on 14 April 1981. Columbia was returned to Kennedy Space Center from California on 28 April atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.