(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Johnson Space Center in Houston)  The first voyage in the shuttle program came 20 years to the day after he became the first man in space
First Shuttle Launch | NASA  A new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981, when Space Shuttle Columbia, or STS-1, soared into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... Twenty years prior to the historic launch, on April 12, 1961, the era of human ... Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in his Vostock I spacecraft.
HubbleSite - The Telescope - Hubble Essentials - Hubble Space ...  The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its ... It has beamed hundreds of thousands of images back to Earth, shedding light on ... the observations have given rise to a multitude of findings  many in areas that ... Scientists can best examine an object like a star by studying it in all the types of...