Apollo 11 Columbia (CSM-107) is moved from Chamber "L" to the work stand in preparation for moving to the Vehicle Assembly Building and mating to Saturn V (SA-506). To the left is shown the arrival of Apollo 12's Yankee Clipper (CSM-108).
"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– Space shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad 39A is viewed across the lagoon at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis is targeted to launch May 12 on the STS-125 mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope."
"Space Shuttle Columbia landing on a runway at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Dryden Flight Research Center. Astronauts Crew Commander John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen, aboard the shuttle, were on the first space mission to test the shuttle's system."
Date: April 14, 1981
NASA ID: S81-30425, S81-30455, DF-ST-82-10646, KSC-81PC-0425, S81-30744, S81-30734, S81-30746, ED06-0045-1
A mockup of a 12-man “Big G” spacecraft at the McDonnell Douglas factory. It was intended to provide large-capacity, all-purpose access to space and be a logistic spacecraft that would be used to resupply an orbiting space station.