Forty years ago, in 1983, the Space Shuttle Columbia flew its first international spaceflight, STS-9. The mission included—for the first time—the European Space Agency’s Spacelab pressurized module and featured more than 70 experiments from American, Canadian, European, and Japanese scientists. Europeans were particularly proud of this “remarkable step” because “NASA, the most famous space agency […]
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NASA History, Brewster H. Shaw Jr., Byron K. Lichtenberg, John W. Young, Owen K. Garriott, Robert A. R. Parker, STS-9
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November 27, 2023
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