# Space Shuttle Columbia launching

- By: NASA
- Date: 1981-04-12
- Classification: Photograph
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- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg/1920px-Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg
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The April 12 launch at Pad 39A of STS-1, just seconds past 7 a.m., carries astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into an Earth orbital mission scheduled to last for 54 hours, ending with unpowered landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.