space anniversary
Today, April 12th, marks the 45th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first manned spaceflight. It also marks the 25th anniversary of the first Shuttle launch.
I remember being a very excited 12 year old 25 years ago, getting up early in the morning to watch the TV in the final hours before launch, and the exhilarating launch itself. Since that first flight, a total of 294 people have been launched into space aboard the shuttle fleet on more than 100 launches.
So, with the shuttle program officially 25 years old, can we please end the fiction that the shuttle is still an experimental vehicle?
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