Apollo 17... Launched 07 December 1972 Landed on Moon 11 December 1972 Taurus-Littrow Returned to Earth 19 December 1972 Apollo 17 would be the last of the apollo missions
"The Enterprise: The prototype of the current Shuttle Missions" Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, was originally to be named Constitution (in honor of the U.S. Constitution's Bicentennial). However, viewers of the popular TV Science Fiction show Star Trek started a write-in campaign urging the White House to select the name Enterprise. Designated, OV-101, the vehicle was rolled out of Rockwell's Air Force Plant 42, Site 1 Palmdale California assembly facility on Sept. 17, 1976. On Jan. 31, 1977, it was transported 36 miles overland from Rockwell's assembly facility to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards Air Force Base for the approach and landing test program. The nine-month-long ALT program was conducted from February through November 1977
Space Shuttle Columbia
Space Shuttle Cloumbia ... The first launch of the Space Shuttle occurred on April 12, l98l, when the orbiter Columbia, with two crew members, astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, lifted off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at the Kennedy Space Center -- the first of 24 launches from Pad A. It was exactly 7 a.m. EST. A launch attempt, 2 days before, was scrubbed because of a timing problem in one of the Columbia's general purpose computers.
Columbia Returning to Kennedy Space Center
At first columbia and her sister ships used to return to Edwards Air Force Base In California and then had to be carried via "Piggy back" aboard a Boeing 747... back to Kennedy Space Center In FL. but due to High Fuel costs the fleet started to return to FL. after The Challenger Disater
