Spaceflight Now: Orbiter Overhaul
Launch of first operational shuttle

SPACEFLIGHT NOW DIGITAL VIDEO
Posted: April 12, 2000

Space shuttle Columbia lifts off from Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A on November 11, 1982. STS-5 was the first operational shuttle mission after Columbia successfully completed four earlier test flights. Columbia's four astronauts deployed two commercial communications satellites on STS-5. Source video: NASA TV (328k, 47sec QuickTime file).

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