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Florida, USA - April 12, 1981: (Editor's note: music is not included in the license) The First Flight of a Space Shuttle. Color footage shows NASA mission operations during the early Space Shuttle era with engineers and flight controllers monitoring radar displays and data screens inside Mission Control. The film includes close views of spacecraft components and the exterior of the shuttle in orbit with Earth visible in the background, revealing thermal panels and structural details against the darkness of space. Additional scenes show engineers meeting at a table to review mission activity, an astronaut in a brown flight suit working inside the cockpit while adjusting controls, and recovery operations at sea where a support ship lowers a capsule module into the water using a deck mounted winch. (Footage by Roberto Machado Noa/Getty Images)