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Columbia (space shuttle)

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Space shuttle Columbia takes off from Kennedy Space Center in 1993. Mission STS-58 was designed to study the performance of the human body in space. Columbia, the longest-serving of NASA's five space shuttles, is named after the sloop used by Robert Gray to explore the coast of British Columbia in 1792.
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John Young (left), commander, and Robert Crippen, pilot; the crew of STS-1 in the cabin of space shuttle Columbia. They are logging time in the orbiter at Kennedy Space Center, before Columbia's first Earth-orbiting test flight in 1981.

First of the US space shuttles. It made its first flight on 12 April 1981, piloted by US astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen. In 1996 it achieved the longest shuttle flight ever, of almost 17 days. It was destroyed in February 2003 when it broke up on re-entry, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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