{"id":15413,"date":"2020-04-12T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-space-shuttle-launch-4\/"},"modified":"2020-04-12T23:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:16:28","slug":"first-space-shuttle-launch-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-space-shuttle-launch-4\/","title":{"rendered":"First Space Shuttle Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1242\" title=\"Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1\" alt=\"Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/8ff57__space-shuttle-columbia-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/space-shuttle-columbia-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/space-shuttle-columbia.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>April 12, 1981<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> launches the first Space Shuttle mission, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/STS-1\" target=\"_blank\">STS-1<\/a>, sending\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_Columbia\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia<\/a> on its maiden voyage. This mission intended to prove the feasibility of the Space Shuttles in specific, and reusable spacecraft in general. Originally set to launch on April 10th, problems delayed the launch by two days, which caused the launch to occur exactly 20 years after Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly into space.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/04\/12\/first-space-shuttle-launch\/\">First Space Shuttle Launch<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/8ff57__13442129.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/13442129\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 12, 1981 NASA launches the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, sending\u00a0the Columbia on its maiden voyage. This mission intended to prove the feasibility of the Space Shuttles in specific, and reusable spacecraft in general. Originally set to launch on April 10th, problems delayed the launch by two days, which caused the launch to occur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[399,489,3059,1509],"class_list":["post-15413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-first","tag-launch","tag-shuttle","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}