PART TWO OF VIDEO: As the countdown winds down on the one hundred and thirth launch of the space shuttle program and amid the immediate wake of the presidential decision to use commercial space launch for cargo and astronauts in 2015 or so, the forgoing video give us a look back at the first launch of the space shuttle with John Young and Robert Crippin in April 1981 and the many subsequent accomplishments of the system.
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