Note: Information obtained from NASA Mission Archives * STS-1-Space Shuttle flight # 1 aboard Columbia launched from Pad 39A on April 12, 1981; landed April 14, 1981 at Edwards Air Force Base, California after a duration of 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes, and 53 seconds and traveling 1.074 million miles with Commander John W. Young and Pilot Robert L. Crippen aboard; this was a Shuttle Systems Test Flight and the first shuttle mission * STS-2-Space Shuttle flight # 2 aboard Columbia launched from Pad 39A on Nov. 12, 1981; landed Nov. 14, 1981 at Edwards Air Force Base, California after a duration of 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes, and 53 seconds and traveling 1.075 million miles with Commander Joseph H. Engle and Pilot Richard H. Truly aboard; the Office of Space and Terrestrial Applicati