Space Shuttle: A Remarkable Flying Machine (1981) NASA Documentary

This film documents the first historic flight of a space shuttle, the U.S. spacecraft Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981 (flight STS-1). The footage highlights liftoff, the onboard activities of astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, as well as the landing in Rogers Dry Lake bed in California.

STS-1 was the first orbital flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The mission launched on 12 April 1981, and returned to Earth on 14 April. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the Earth 37 times during the 54.5-hour mission. It was the first American manned space flight since the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project on 15 July 1975. STS-1 was the only US manned maiden test flight of a new spacecraft system, although it was the culmination of atmospheric testing of the Space Shuttle orbiter.

The movie can be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.1157922

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[Kg277]

Now THIS is a documentary! Minus all the stupid zoomy sound effects.



[wdtvlive42]

@jaysonvilett

I have a few more shuttle documentaries to upload in coming days.

[BerkeleyAcoustics]

"Routine access to space, welcome to the future."

[bigtwit]

Love the 70s and 80s documentaries. They get right to the point.

[colindominy]

This is a wonderful upload .. congrats & thank you !!

[rakoty1]

god bless america

[2hackett]

Great documentary.. thankyou

[LouistheHedgehog]

The music at 27:00 was ahead of its time.

[ti994apc]

@Jagex279 That was odd? Do you think that was debris?

[Jagex279]

UFO at 16:24 :)