The STS-1 crew launched on the space shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on a two day and six hour mission that put the space transportation system through its paces.

A month before STS-1, as Columbia sat on Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, several technicians were asphyxiated by nitrogen fumes while working in the shuttle’s aft fuselage.

After years of delays, STS-1 was finally scheduled for launch on April 10, 1981. But a computer problem scrubbed that first launch attempt, so NASA tried again – successfully – two days later.

UBASH3B/Sts-1 has been shown to dephosphorylate not only CBL but also several kinases including Src and Syk. 57, 58 The aberrant pattern of CBL phosphorylation in UBASH3B/Sts-1-depleted cells ...

STS-1 stands for Space Transportation System-1. It launched in style, with much sound, thunder and a huge light and fire show, and heralded the new era of human spaceflight.

The STS-1 mission ended earlier today, two and one third days later and thousands of miles removed from Sunday's Florida launch setting. Astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen ...

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.