[DOC] [TLE] First Shuttle Launch | NASA [PAR] Apr 12, 2013 ... STS-52 was the first flight of the U.S. Microgravity Payload-1, a complement of 
three ... April 14, 1981, Landing of First Space Shuttle Mission ... The mission 
marked the first NASA flight to end with a wheeled landing and ..... Yuri Gagarin 
became the first human to orbit the Earth in his Vostock I spacecraft. [DOC] [TLE] STS-1 - Wikipedia [PAR] 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 37 times. 
Columbia carried a crew of two  mission commander John W. Young and ... It 
was the first American manned space flight since the Apollo-Soyuz Test... [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about ASTRONOMY - StudyStack [PAR] IN 1981 THIS FIRST SPACE SHUTTLE BECAME THE FIRST U.S. SPACECRAFT 
TO END ITS MISSION BY LANDING ON TERRA FIRMA, COLUMBIA. IN 1966... [DOC] [TLE] Space shuttle Endeavour on terra firma, ending 19 years as orbiter ... [PAR] Space Shuttle Program 1981-2011 | Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, .... #
space #spaceship #spacecraft #spaceshuttle .... NASA Official STS-135 Mission 
PatchThe Last Space Shuttle Mission Atlantis USA ..... Cooper became the first 
person to sleep in space. ... This is how NASA rescued its planet-hunting 
telescope. [DOC] [TLE] AmericaSpace [PAR] On 4 July 1982, the crew of STS-4 became the first U.S. astronauts to spend ... 
Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion spacecraft in the coming years 
marked off ... 'A Horrible Moment': 30 Years Since the Shuttle's Mission for Britain 
and .... Space Station (ISS) returned safely to terra firma today (Saturday, 18 June
). [DOC] [TLE] terra firma  Page 2  Tag  The Register [PAR] The first rule about GCHQ is you don't talk about GCHQ. ... by several mice - 
became the first animals to travel into space and return alive. ... marked the end 
of his stay on the International Space Station by releasing ... Stray SMS leads to 
aborted landing .... Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off today on its STS-132 mission to 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Atlantis launch successful, historic final shuttle mission underway ... [PAR] Jul 8, 2011 ... The space shuttle Atlantis soared into the heavens and the history ... until after 
landing," Ferguson said before launch in a recent NASA video. ... The end of an 
era ... then, the shuttle  the world's first and only reusable spacecraft  has ... 
space station, its final mission closing out the life of a spacecraft that... [DOC] [TLE] NASA's countdown to credibility - Technology & science - Space ... [PAR] Jul 12, 2005 ... The Space Shuttle Discovery is the first shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia 
accident. ... Also, getting a shuttle off terra firma and safely back down again 
lends ... for an attempted manned Mars landing, while 40 percent are in favor. 
Gallup ... All this became possible once the shuttle began to fly in 1981. [DOC] [TLE] Bisl 16. space exploration - SlideShare [PAR] Apr 20, 2014 ... It NORTH AMERICAN SPACECRAFT 18-19 A GIANT LEAP 20-21 .... Neil 
Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon, followed by Edwin Aldrin
. .... constant communication with space missions through its facilities in ... 
Operations for launching and landing the space shuttle are managed here. [DOC] [TLE] Atlantis - the final countdown - The Irish Times [PAR] Jun 30, 2011 ... July 8th sees the lift-off of the space shuttle Atlantis, the very last shuttle flight to 
be made. ... The shuttle programme has brought us tremendous highs, watching 
as ... shuttles when they approached their first manned launch in 1981. ... the 
samples are returned to terra firma, explains Browne, who describes... [DOC] [TLE] Press Clips Week 13-2016 - Space Safety Magazine [PAR] Apr 10, 2016 ... When Russia's Mars-96 exploration mission broke apart after launch in ... For the 
first time, SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its

Question: In 1981 this first space shuttle became the first U.S. spacecraft to end its mission by landing on terra firma
Answer: Columbia