Maiden Voyage ship-reprints 19 of that year

19 of that year

Special guests joined the road trips

It has proved surprisingly resilient

President Hoover pressed a button

" shown here at the Ford Pavilion in Flushing Meadows

Maiden Voyage ship-reprints 19 of that yearIn April 1981, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in the first voyage undertaken by a reusable spacecraft. The shuttle's passengers, astronauts John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen, were the first American astronauts to go to space in nearly 6 years. During the ascent, Robert's heart rate jumped to 130 beats per minute. "That was one fantastic ride! I highly recommend it," he said later. To take this photo, our