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Official NASA portrait of astronaut Robert L. Crippen.

Cosmonaut / Astronaut · USA · * 1937

Robert Crippen

Znak mise STS-1, prvního orbitálního letu raketoplánu.

Pilot of STS-1, his first spaceflight. He went on to command several further Space Shuttle missions.

NationalityUSA

Born11 September 1937

Spaceflights1

SPACEFLIGHTS

Znak mise STS-1, prvního orbitálního letu raketoplánu.

STS-112 April 1981

The first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle system. In April 1981 Columbia, crewed by John Young and Robert Crippen, tested shuttle launch, orbital operations and runway landing for the first time.open article →