Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

In what year did the US Space Shuttle achieve its first orbital flight?

  1. 1982

  2. 1980

  3. 1979

  4. 1981
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Explanation

The Space Shuttle program achieved its first orbital flight with STS-1 on April 12, 1981, commanded by John Young. This mission successfully tested the Shuttle's flight capabilities. Columbia was the first orbiter to fly in space.

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The US Space Shuttle program achieved its first orbital flight in April 1981, when Columbia launched on the STS-1 mission crewed by John Young and Robert Crippen. This marked the first time a reusable crewed spacecraft flew to orbit and returned to land like an airplane. The shuttle program was still in development testing during the years just before 1981.

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