moonwatchuniverse:40 years ago… STS-1 launched on 12 April 1981…Not planned as such but the first s
moonwatchuniverse:40 years ago… STS-1 launched on 12 April 1981…Not planned as such but the first space shuttle was launched exactly 20 years after Yuri Gagarin’s first spaceflight mission Vostok-1.This January 6, 1981 photo shows Robert Crippen and John Young as commander for the STS-1 space shuttle mission during emergency egress training with the slide wire basket at Pad 39-A in Florida.Director of Flight Crew Operations George Abbey also known as “the astronaut maker” looks on at the rightside.Note astronaut John Young wore a NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster chronograph with applied logo (and a missing pusher) on a Jacoby Bender steel mesh bracelet. A wristwatch he got during the Apollo-era.(Photo: NASA) -- source link