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This horizontal view of the space shuttle Columbia captures the flight of water birds disturbed by the activity at launch Pad 39A. Launch occurred at 10:59:59 a.m. (EDT), June 27, 1982. Astronauts Thomas K. Mattingly II and Henry W. Hartsfield Jr. are aboard for NASA's final orbital flight test before launching into a new space era with the first operational flight planned for fall of this year.