Retro Space Images: Hail Columbia!

AS-6.14.13-STS2-81P-523-ARRIVE PAFB-11.10.81 Dick Truly Joe Engle space shuttle Columbia STS 2 Retro Space Images posted on AmericaSpace
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Dawn of the Space Shuttle  STS-2 astronauts Dick Truly and Joe Engle arrive at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida on November 10, 1981. The two crewmen would take Space Shuttle Columbia into orbit two days later.

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