[DOC] [TLE] First Shuttle Launch | NASA [PAR] The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating and ... 
April 14, 1981, Landing of First Space Shuttle Mission ... designed to honor the 
crews, pay tribute to the spacecraft and emphasize the ... 16, 2003, NASA's 
flagship orbiter Columbia thundered into orbit on STS-107, a 16-day science 
mission. [DOC] [TLE] JSC Features - 25 years later, JSC remembers shuttle's first flight [PAR] Apr 17, 2006 ... I was hired in time for the first shuttle launch, and the feeling I had was 
overwhelming. ... In April 1981, my husband and I worked at Ford Aerospace, he 
an .... about six years since we had launched an orbital vehicle with a human 
crew! .... Now I'm still supporting the space program, but as a JSC contractor,... [DOC] [TLE] STS-1 Launch | NASA [PAR] On April 12, 1981, astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen launched into space 
... years the program's five spacecraft carried people into orbit repeatedly, 
launched, .... voyage, the STS-1 mission, the first flight of the Space Shuttle 
Program. ... Space shuttle Columbia, the vehicle for the first space shuttle mission
, moves out... [DOC] [TLE] First Voyage of Shuttle Columbia | NASA [PAR] In the lower right corner is one of the vehicle's radiator panels. ... STS-1, 
Columbia's maiden voyage, launched on April 12, 1981, and was the ... The 
Space Shuttle Program story is full of spectacular successes. .... A new era in 
space flight began on April 12, 1981, when Space Shuttle Columbia, or STS-1, 
soared into orbit... [DOC] [TLE] NASA - First iPhone Flying on Last Shuttle [PAR] Jul 1, 2011 ... The U.S. Honor Flag handoff ... The STS-135 mission patch will be taken into 
orbit in numerous forms during the flight, the last one of the Space Shuttle 
Program. ... Atlantis is to launch July 8 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in ... 
For instance, a flag from the first shuttle flight in 1981 will be carried to the... [DOC] [TLE] President Obama Reveals Astronauts' Secret Souvenir on Final ... [PAR] Jul 15, 2011 ... President Barack Obama spoke with the astronauts flying NASA's ... station crew," 
said Atlantis' STS-135 commander Chris Ferguson. "It will hopefully maintain a 
position of honor until the next vehicle launched from U.S. soil brings U.S. ... The 
flag flew on NASA's first shuttle mission in 1981, and the final... [DOC] [TLE] Space Shuttle Columbia: A New Beginning and Vision ... [PAR] Feb 1, 2011 ... April 12, 1981: the 20th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight in history. ... 
Space Shuttle program embarked on its first mission that mid-April morning. ... at 
Kennedy, Columbia was rolled into OPF-1 (Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1). .... 
and performance during launch, orbit, and entry/descent/landing. [DOC] [TLE] 1983-1986: The Missions and History of Space Shuttle Challenger ... [PAR] Jan 28, 2011 ... As stated by Volume II of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center Technical ... 
Challenger is the only Shuttle orbiter to be named in honor of a previously-flown 
... Launched into a 28.5 degree 178nm orbit, Challenger's crew ... their attention 
to performing the Shuttle Program's first spacewalk, or EVA. [DOC] [TLE] A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle ... [PAR] Jul 14, 2016 ... The first launch of the space shuttle finally came on April 12, 1981. ... We were 
going to have to give up on the shuttle being a delivery vehicle into orbit. ... and 
Neil Armstrong and NASA Mission Control creator Chris Kraft, right, ... President 
Jimmy Carter presents the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to... [DOC] [TLE] Christopher C. Kraft Jr. - Wikipedia [PAR] Christopher Columbus "Chris" Kraft Jr. (born February 28, 1924) is a retired 
American NASA ... Assigned to the flight operations division, Kraft became 
NASA's first flight ... At the beginning of the Apollo program, Kraft retired as a flight 
director to .... of a

Question: Chris was honored by this NASA program's first vehicle launched into orbit in 1981
Answer: Space Shuttle