{"slug": "space-shuttle", "label": "Space Shuttle", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48806", "qid": "Q48806", "description": "partially reusable launch system and space plane developed by NASA (1981–2011)", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1977, 2020], "span_label": ["1977 CE", "2020 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 8}], "related": [{"slug": "nasa", "label": "NASA", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "florida", "label": "Florida", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "space-shuttle-atlantis", "label": "Space Shuttle Atlantis", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1977, "year_label": "1977 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "August 12", "text": "August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371657539#August", "title": "1977", "revid": 1371657539, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#March", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1981, "year_label": "1981 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia, with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a crewed reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369107326#April", "title": "1981", "revid": 1369107326, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1984, "year_label": "1984 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 3", "text": "February 3 – STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371242779#February", "title": "1984", "revid": 1371242779, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1985, "year_label": "1985 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24 – STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369963057#June", "title": "1985", "revid": 1369963057, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "September 29", "text": "September 29 – STS-26: NASA resumes Space Shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#September", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2011, "year_label": "2011 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "July 21", "text": "July 21 – Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135, concluding NASA's Space Shuttle program.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372940525#July", "title": "2011", "revid": 1372940525, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "May 30", "text": "May 30 – The first crewed flight of the SpaceX Dragon 2 (initially scheduled for May 27 but delayed due to weather) is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first crewed spacecraft to take off from U.S. soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371633312#May", "title": "2020", "revid": 1371633312, "section": "Events › May"}}]}