{"id":42102,"date":"2006-04-07T23:34:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T15:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/young-crippen-firing-room\/"},"modified":"2006-04-07T23:34:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T15:34:26","slug":"young-crippen-firing-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/young-crippen-firing-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Young-Crippen Firing Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In tribute to the 25th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight, NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center today is honoring the crew of mission  STS-1, Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen, by dedicating  the firing room that launched the historic flight as the \u201cYoung-Crippen Firing Room.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>  The first shuttle mission launched the two astronaut test pilots on April 12, 1981, aboard Space Shuttle Columbia from firing room 1 at Kennedy. The crew landed two days later at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending the boldest test flight in history.\n<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"90\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/content.nasaspaceflight.com\/library\/1016\/logo2_1bk.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" width=\"182\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\">\u2018It is our pleasure on behalf of all your friends at the Kennedy Space Center to honor you with a plaque commemorating your historic flight and your successes with NASA,\u2019 said Kennedy Space Center Director Jim Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Young and Crippen are visiting Kennedy today and Friday to celebrate the anniversary, as well as address employees and answer questions. Deputy Center Director Bill Parsons surprised the men with the honor following the crew\u2019s presentation to employees.<\/p>\n<p>A plaque featuring the STS-1 mission patch was placed outside the firing room. <\/p>\n<p>Signed by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Kennedy, the plaque bears the inscription: \u2018On the 25th anniversary of STS-1, April 12, 1981, the first orbital test flight of NASA\u2019s Space Shuttle Program, we proudly name firing room 1 the&nbsp;Young-Crippen Firing Room in tribute to John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot.\u2019<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><em>(A normal news content&nbsp;service will be resumed in the coming hours on NASASpaceflight.com \u2013 following an external server error).<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tqlkg.com\/image-1911168-10370215\" width=\"468\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tribute to the 25th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight, NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center today is honoring the crew of mission STS-1, Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen, by dedicating the firing room that launched the historic flight as the \u201cYoung-Crippen Firing Room.\u201d The first shuttle mission launched the two astronaut test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}