KSC-79PC-0047 The Space Shuttle Columbia, piggy-back on its 747 carrier aircraft, is only seconds away from a touchdown at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), completing its 2,400-mile ferry flight from Dryden Flight Research Center in California. Columbia, the first of the fleet of Space Shuttles, is scheduled for the first Space Shuttle flight n 1981.
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KSC-79PC-0047 The Space Shuttle Columbia, piggy-back on its 747 carrier aircraft, is only seconds away from a touchdown at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), completing its 2,400-mile ferry flight from Dryden Flight Research Center in California. Columbia, the first of the fleet of Space Shuttles, is scheduled for the first Space Shuttle flight n 1981.