Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Title: [The launch, at Pad 394, just seconds past 7 a.m.]
Event Date: 1981-04-12
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.238541

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, stamped: NASA / National Aeronautics and / Space Administration / John F. Kennedy Space Carter / Kennady Space Center, Florida 32899 / AC 305 887-2468; stamped: [star] / Credit: / ©1981 / Owen F. S. [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR / 4-81-9696 [handwritten]; typed: FOR RELEASE April 12, 1981 PHOTO NO. 108-KSC-81PC-382 / 81HC-271 / KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fia.- After six years of silence, the / thunder of nanned space flight is heard again, as the successful / launch of the first Space Shuttle ushers in a new concept in / utilization of space. The April 12 launch, at Pad 394, just / seconds past 7 a.m., carries Astronaut 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. STS-1, the first in a series of Shuttle / vehicles planned for the Space Transportation System, utilizes / reusable launch and return components.; typed: This photograph is a government publication -- not subject to copyright, / It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or by any NASA employee of a / commercial product, process or service, or usad in any other manner that might mislood. / Accordingly, it is requested that if this photograph is used in advertising, posters, books, etc., / layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release. / Photo Credit NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tagasauris Keywords: Day; Implied person; Kennedy Space Center; Landscape; Lift Off; Low angle View; NASA; No Photostyle; Nobody; Outdoors; Panoramic; Rocket; Science and technology; Smoke; Space Shuttle Columbia; Space Shuttle program; Spacecraft; Transportation
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AVIATION / SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH
Retouching: N