JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TX. - STS-1 Official Crew Portrait - Astronauts John W. Young, left, Crew Commander, and Robert L. Crippen, Pilot. 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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