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The rear wheels of the space shuttle orbiter Columbia touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base, NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (then Dryden), California, to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days. Astronauts John W. Young, STS-1 commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, were aboard the vehicle. via NASA ift.tt/1TTGD8R
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April 14, 1981, Landing of First Space Shuttle Mission was taken on August 22, 2008 at 09:37AM