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7 de abr. de 2021 · Pilot Bob Crippen and Commander John Young became the first astronauts to fly a Space Shuttle into orbit on April 12, 1981. Crippen tells host Mat Kaplan about that mission and shares many more stories from his adventurous life. Mat was standing on the dry lake bed in the California desert when STS-1 returned to Earth.
STS-1 ( Space Transportation System -1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA 's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, [1] and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 37 times. Columbia carried a crew of two—mission commander John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen.
Robert Crippen became a NASA astronaut in September 1969. In 1973 and 1974 he was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Skylab 2, 3, and 4 missions, and served in this same capacity for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission in 1975. He completed his first space mission as Pilot on STS-1, the first orbital test flight of a space shuttle ...
12 de abr. de 2021 · Following the first launch attempt, halted by a computer glitch, STS-1 astronauts Commander John W. Young and Pilot Robert L. Crippen lifted off on April 12, 1981, aboard space shuttle Columbia, ushering in a new era of reusable spacecraft. Their launch came exactly 20 years after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin’s inaugural human spaceflight.
13 de abr. de 2023 · An interview with the commander and pilot of the first space shuttle mission on the 25th anniversary. Hear John Young and Robert Crippen tell the story of th...
Robert L. Crippen. (born 1937). The astronaut Robert L. Crippen served as pilot on the first U.S. space shuttle orbital flight. He later commanded several other shuttle missions. Robert Laurel Crippen was born in Beaumont, Texas, on September 11, 1937. He graduated in 1960 from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in aerospace ...
Crippen, Robert Laurel 'Crip' Crippen Credit: www.spacefacts.de: American pilot astronaut 1966-1991. Member of first crew to fly a winged spacecraft to orbit and back. Status: Inactive; Active 1966-1991. Born: 1937-09-11. Spaceflights: 4 . Total time in space: 23.57 days.
