# Columbia.sts-1.01

- By: NASA/KSC
- Date: Taken on 5 March 1981
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/1981/captions/KSC-81PC-0136.html; see also https://images.nasa.gov/details-KSC-81PC-0136
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Columbia.sts-1.01.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/8/8b/Columbia.sts-1.01.jpg/1920px-Columbia.sts-1.01.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A timed exposure of the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, at Launch Pad A, Complex 39, turns the space vehicle and support facilities into a night-time fantasy of light. To the left of the Shuttle are the fixed and the rotating service structures.