{"id":9869,"date":"2014-04-12T23:16:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T23:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-space-shuttle-launch\/"},"modified":"2014-04-12T23:16:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T23:16:50","slug":"first-space-shuttle-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-space-shuttle-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"First Space Shuttle Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1241\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<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\/2014\/04\/b6acf__space-shuttle-columbia-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/>April 12, 1981<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNASA\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> launches the first Space Shuttle mission, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSTS-1\" target=\"_blank\">STS-1<\/a>, sending\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpace_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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F04%2F12%2Ffirst-man-in-space%2F\" rel=\"prev\">First Man in Space<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/b6acf__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/04\/12\/first-space-shuttle-launch\/\">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":2,"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-9869","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\/9869"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}