NASA Footage of The STS-1 Launch Part 1

From The Morning of Sunday April 12th 1981,NASA Footage of The Very First Space Shuttle Launch

The STS-1 Crew:

Commander: John Young

Pilot: Robert Crippen

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NASA
• 1981
• Space
• Shuttle
• Columbia

[strangernmoscow]

Thank you sooooo much for posting this!!! Is there any chance you have the entire launch coverage like this for STS-51L. I would love to get all of this footage on DVD somehow for all missions. I have a few vhs tapes on my own, but they are from later missions, STS-119 until now.

[zellco321]

@strangernmoscow I only have footage of The full countdown and Launch of this mission.

I agree It would really be neat To have The STS-51-L full countdown and Launch.

I don't know where To get it. This footage came from ShuttleSource.co

[JMShearer]

Interesting stuff. Was the commercial radio being played between the NASA info voiceovers actual commercial broadcast from 1981? I keep waiting for it to start doing public news broadcasts about the launch and was just wondering.

[PeoplesWar]

The quality is amazing. It looks like this happened today.

[ceredigio]

Is that Deke Slayton and Jack Schmitt among others having breakfast with the crew? Schmitt was a Senator for New Mexico at the time of the launch.

[dirac33]

Those were some impressive graphics displays for 1981! I remember working with one that would do 1024x768 in 1985 that cost $10,000 all by itself.

[dirac33]

John Young is seriously over having a camera jockey in his face :)

[dirac33]

There's Harrison Schmidt at the front table on the right - and the guy who sits down next to him I believe is Ellison Onizuka, who died on Challenger.

[MikeInBradenton]

Hey that's today!  30 years later. The future had arrived!!!

[airdaleva42]

Great videos Zellco3212. Did NASA add the easy listening sound track? Its a goood idea instead of slience that lull one to sleep while waiting for something to happen.

[strangernmoscow]

I agree, especially since it will be the 25th anniversary of the Challenger accident on the 28th. I'll try to do some research, you can't even find any pre-launch photo's of 51L on the pad, rollout or anything. I'll let you know if I'm able to find out anything.