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NASA celebrates space shuttle's 25 years

Houston, USA - "Columbia" left April 12, 1981

25 years have passed since April 1981 when the first space shuttle "Columbia" left from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and successfully landed after two days at Edwards base in California. NASA celebrated at Johnson Space Center in Houston the first century quarter passed from that event which signed a new era for space explorations. Since then 112 shuttles were launched from Earth and two of these...

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Rome, Italy, 04/13/2006 14:02
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