KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-1 arrived at Launch Complex 39A this afternoon at the end of a three-and-a-half mile journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building. The first Space Shuttle assembly will undergo an extensive series of pad validation tests and a dress rehearsal for launch - including a 20-second test firing of the orbiter’s three main engines - before being cleared for flight. The STS-1 mission, known as a shuttle systems test flight, will seek to demonstrate safe launch into orbit and safe return of the orbiter and crew and verify the combined performance of the entire shuttle veh
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-1 arrived at Launch Complex 39A this afternoon at the end of a three-and-a-half mile journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building. The first Space Shuttle assembly will undergo an extensive series of pad validation tests and a dress rehearsal for launch - including a 20-second test firing of the orbiter’s three main engines - before being cleared for flight. The STS-1 mission, known as a shuttle systems test flight, will seek to demonstrate safe launch into orbit and safe return of the orbiter and crew and verify the combined performance of the entire shuttle vehicle -- orbiter, solid rocket boosters and external tank. STS-1 will be launched from Pad A at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39 no earlier than March 1981.
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