Here’s how it works. A timed exposure of the Space Shuttle, STS-1, at Launch Pad A, Complex 39, turns the space vehicle and support facilities into a night-time beacon of spaceflight.

For Engle and Truly, their STS-2 launch on Nov. 12, 1981, was immediately memorable for the noise it made.

STS-1 was supposed to launch April 10, but was scrubbed due to a timing problem in one of Columbia's general-purpose IBM System/4 Pi computers. A software patch was installed to correct it.

STS-1’s original launch date was targeted for November 1979, but it didn't launch for another two years, according to NASAspaceflight.com.

Object Details Summary This vehicle permit pass, with an emblem of a Space Shuttle orbiter stack, was used during the rollout of the space shuttle Discovery. It belonged to Dennis Jenkins, a ...

A technical delay scrubbed the first STS-1 launch attempt, moving it to April 12. Scrubs due to weather and technical delays are part of launching any rocket -- especially a new vehicle.