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On April 12, 1981, astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen were launched on mankind's first reusable crewed spacecraft, Columbia. The orbiter, which many people think of as the "shuttle," lifted off like a rocket and landed like a plane. The two solid rocket boosters that helped push them into space were also reused, after being recovered in the ocean. Only the massive external fuel tank was destroyed as it fell back to Earth. It was all known as the Space Transportation System; their mission, STS-1.
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