 |  | | S79-25007 (13 December 1978) --- Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, pilot for the first Space Shuttle orbital flight test (STS-1), is assisted by technicians prior to entering a water immersion facility (WIF) during a training session. The zero gravity familiarization took place in the Johnson Space Center’s training and test center (Building 260). |
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 | | | S79-25016 (13 December 1978) --- Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, pilot for the first Space Shuttle orbital flight test, descends steps leading into the water immersion facility (WIF) during a training session in the Johnson Space Center’s training and test facility (Bldg. 260). |
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 | | | S81-29052 (March 1981) --- Astronauts John W. Young, left, STS-1 commander, and Robert L. Crippen, right center, crew pilot, join their backup crewmen and other NASA officials in an inspection of the Space Shuttle slide wire escape system at Launch Complex 39, KSC. The backup crew members are astronauts Joe H. Engle, far right, and Richard H. Truly, third from right. George W. S. Abbey, JSC Director of Flight Operations, is second from left. |
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 | | | S79-29067 (15 March 1979) --- An interior view of the Space Shuttle mission simulator (SMS), featuring the area between the commander and pilot positions which houses displays and controls. The cathode ray tube (CRT) computer displays are at top; a portion of the computer keyboards for the commander and pilot can be seen at bottom center. |
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 | | | S79-30442 (29 March 1979) --- Granvil A. (Al) Pennington studies the monitor on his console – the instrumentation/ communications officer (INCO) position – during simulations in the mission operations control room of the mission control center. The simulations are in preparation for STS-1. |
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 | | | S81-29620 (6 April 1981) --- Prime and backup STS-1 crewmembers take part in a briefing with engineers at JSC and with Rockwell International representatives in California via telephone. Astronauts John W. Young, left, and Robert L. Crippen, second from left, are STS-1 prime crewmen. Backup crewmen are Astronauts Joe H. Engle, second from right and Richard H. Truly. |
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 | | | S81-29618 (6 April 1981) --- STS-1 prime and backup astronaut crewmembers look at visuals during a coordinated teleconference with engineers. Seated at the table in a briefing room at the Johnson Space Center are, clockwise from the left, George W. S. Abbey, director of flight operations, John W. Young, Robert L. Crippen, Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly. |
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 | | | S81-29212 (March 1981) --- The Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia is showered with lights in this nocturnal scene at Launch Pad 39A, as preparations are underway for the first flight (STS-1) of NASA's new reusable spacecraft system. |
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 | | | S81-30462 (12 April 1981) --- The Space Shuttle Columbia rises-off Pad 39A a few seconds past 7 a.m. (EST) on April 12, 1981. |
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 | | | S81-30492 (12 April 1981) --- Launch view of the Space Shuttle Columbia for the STS-1 mission, April 12, 1981. |
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 | | | S81-30509 (12 April 1981) --- During the STS-1 launch sequence and orbital insertion, the external tank (ET) is jettisoned from the Space Shuttle Columbia, as photographed by a camera in the umbilical bay. |
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 | | | S81-30216 (12 April 1981) --- Astronaut Joe H. Engle, backup crew commander for STS-1, watches a large screen in the mission operations control room of the Johnson Space Center’s mission control center during the STS-1 flight’s prime crew commander’s status report. |
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 | | | STS001-07-0502 (12-14 April 1981) --- A smiling Robert L. Crippen, STS-1 pilot, is about to prepare a meal aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in Earth orbit. |
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 | | | S81-30419 (12-14 April 1981) --- Astronaut John W. Young mans the commander’s station in Columbia during the 36-orbit STS-1 flight. A loose leaf notebook with flight activities data floats in the weightless environment. |
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 | | | STS001-06-497 (12-14 April 1981) --- Astronaut John W. Young, STS-1 commander, opens one of the lockers in the Columbia's middeck area. |
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 | | | S81-30420 (12-14 April 1981) --- Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, STS-1 pilot, takes advantage of zero-gravity to do some rare acrobatics aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in Earth orbit. He is in the middeck area. |
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 | | | STS001-012-0305 (April 1981) --- California, San Francisco Bay are seen. The coast is seen from near Santa Cruz northward to Point Reyes. The great valley is in the foreground. |
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 | | | STS-1-11-0173 (12-14 April 1981) --- Columbia's view of Cape Cod, Boston, Plymouth, Glouster, Lowell, Taunton, Worcester and Providence, Mass. |
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 | | | STS001-012-0350 (12-14 April 1981) --- India and China, the Ladokh and Zaskar Ranges of the Great Himalaya are clearly etched by snow and shadow. |
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 | | | S81-30425 (14 April 1981) --- The Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia is seen from the front as it heads for a touchdown atop a dry lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. A T-38 chase plane follows it in at left. |
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 | | | S81-30734 (14 April 1981) --- The rear wheels of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia touch down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days. |
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 | | | S81-30749 (14 April 1981) --- This high angle view shows the scene at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California soon after the successful landing of the Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia to end STS-1. Service vehicles approach the spacecraft to perform evaluations for safety and egress preparedness. |
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 | | | S81-30843 (14 April 1981) --- Astronaut John W. Young, STS-1 commander, egresses the Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia following her successful landing on Rogers dry lake bed on southern California’s Edwards Air Force Base. Approaching the crewmember at right is Dr. Craig L. Fischer, head of the medical operations branch at JSC. Still inside the spacecraft is Robert L. Crippen, STS-1 pilot. |
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 | | | S81-31913 (14 April 1981) --- This head-on photograph of the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia was taken during post-landing servicing on Rogers dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. |
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 | | | S81-30846 (14 April 1981) --- Astronaut John W. Young, near center of photo, egresses the Space Shuttle Columbia upon the completion of checklist activities following the successful landing of the spacecraft used on STS-1 space mission. George W. S. Abbey, director of flight operations at the Johnson Space Center (JSC), greets him at the bottom of the steps. Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, STS-1 pilot, is still inside the Columbia. Dr. Craig L. Fischer, chief of the medical operations branch in the medical sciences division at JSC, ingresses the spacecraft at top of stairs. |
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 | | | S81-32625 (April 1981) --- This scene represents the end of NASA's STS-1 mission and the beginning of STS-2 in that the orbiter Columbia is arriving at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin the lengthy process of preparing it for STS-2. The vehicle landed at Dryden Flight Research Center on April 14 after an historic 2 1/3 day flight in earth orbit. It was mated to this 747 aircraft, titled NASA 905, and flown over the USA to its Florida destination. |
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 | | | S81-30953 (14 April 1981) --- The solid rocket booster recovery ship UTC Liberty heads for Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after retrieving one of the two boosters casings from the STS-1 launch. The vessel had been tied up overnight at the Trident Submarine Basin at Port Canaveral, from which point this photo was taken. |
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 | | | S81-30985 (14 April 1981) --- Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, center, STS-1 pilot, addresses a large turnout of greeters at Ellington Air Force Base following the return of the Columbia's crew from the Dryden Flight Research Center and their Edwards Air Force Base landing site. Astronaut John W. Young, crew commander, stands near his wife Susy at right center. Crippen's wife Virginia and children are standing behind the Youngs on the platform. Others seen include Presidential aide Jim Baker, Houston mayor Jim McConn, NASA Administrator (acting) Alan M. Lovelace, John F. Yardley, associate administrator for space transportation systems; Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., JSC director; flight directors Neil B. Hutchinson, Charles L. Lewis and Donald R. Puddy; Robert F. Thompson, manager of Space Shuttle program office. |
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