History

And so it began

The date was April 12, 1981. I was still in elementary school when Space Transportation System-1 (STS-1)—better known as the space shuttle Columbia—lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad LC-39A, ushering in a return to manned spaceflight for the United States since the Apollo program ended in December 1972 (less than a year before I …

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Never Forget…

“December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”— President Franklin D. Roosevelt It was a quiet Sunday morning in the territory of Hawai’i in 1941. People went about with their daily lives: attending church, sleeping …

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