Space Shuttle
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The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the Space Shuttle
Discovery lifts off at the start of the STS-120 mission.
Columbia undergoing installation of its ceramic tiles
Enterprise during the Approach and Landing Tests
Columbia launching on STS-1
STS-9
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STS-9 was the ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the sixth mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Launched on November 28, 1983, the ten-day mission carried the first Spacelab laboratory module into
View of Columbia's payload bay, showing Spacelab.
From left: Garriott, Lichtenberg, Shaw, Young, Merbold and ParkerSpace Shuttle program← STS-8STS-41-B (10) →
STS-9 launches from Kennedy Space Center, on November 28, 1983.
Space Shuttle Columbia lands following STS 62 on 18 March 1994.