This was followed by STS-2 on November 12, also using Columbia, primarily to demonstrate safe re-launch of a Shuttle.

STS-2 was a Space Shuttle mission conducted by NASA, using the Space Shuttle Columbia.

In the early planning stages of the Space Shuttle program, STS-2 was intended to be a Skylab reboost mission.

By the time STS-2 was launched, Skylab had long since de-orbited.

As a consequence, both Engle and Truly were rookies during STS-2 ( Engle had flown the X-15 above and so had earned USAF astronaut wings, but was still considered a NASA rookie ), constituting the first all-rookie crew since Skylab 4.

Although the STS-2 mission had been planned for a duration of five days, with a few hours a day spent testing the Canadarm, the flight was cut short when one of the three fuel cells that produce electricity and drinking water failed.

The deorbit and reentry phase of this mission differed from STS-1, in that while the first shuttle entry was flown as a " middle of the road " test of the automatic guidance, the success of that mission allowed for the STS-2 crew to explore the stability margins of the vehicle's performance.

STS-2 was the first shuttle flight where O-ring blow-by was observed.

The commander, Truly, was the only veteran astronaut of the crew, having flown as the pilot on STS-2 in 1981 and for two of the Approach and Landing Tests aboard Enterprise in 1977.

The SIR-B was an improved version of a similar device flown on the OSTA-l package during STS-2.

He was a member of the support crew for STS-1 and STS-2, and On-Orbit CAPCOM for STS-2.

He was assigned to one of the two-man crews for the Approach and Landing Tests of the Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1977, and the STS-2 mission in 1981.

He was subsequently assigned to the STS-2 astronaut support crew and was the ascent CAPCOM for the second Space Shuttle flight.

Hart was also member of the support crews for STS-1, STS-2, STS-3, and STS-7.

It was first used on the second Space Shuttle mission STS-2, which was launched November 13, 1981.

The Canadarm was first used on STS-2 in 1981, on board Columbia, and has subsequently been used on over 50 shuttle missions.

Following STS-2, NASA policy held that the commander had to be an astronaut who had already flown in space, making this the last all-rookie crew of a NASA mission.

The first two, used for STS-1 and STS-2, were painted white to protect the tanks from ultraviolet light during the extended time that the shuttle spends on the launch pad prior to launch.

Hartsfield served as backup pilot for STS-2 and STS-3, Columbia's second and third orbital flight tests.

Together with pilot Richard Truly he flew as commander on the second flight of the Space Shuttle, STS-2.

He continued to work for NASA until his retirement in 1981, shortly after the second Space Shuttle flight ( STS-2 ).

His technical assignments have included: backup T-38 chase pilot for STS-1 ; support crew and backup entry spacecraft communicator ( CAPCOM ) for STS-2 ; support crew and primary entry CAPCOM for STS-3 ; software verification at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory ( SAIL ) and the Flight Simulation Laboratory ( FSL ); representing the Astronaut Office in the development of a crew escape system for the Space Shuttle ; Acting Chief of the Astronaut Office.

* 1981 – Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.

Later, he worked in the experimentation team, Orbiter test team, and launch support crew at the Kennedy Space Center for the STS-1 and STS-2.

View of the RMS during STS-2.

His technical assignments included: Astronaut Office representative at the Kennedy Space Center during initial Orbiter checkout and launch support for STS-1 and STS-2 ; Flight Data File Manager ; lead spacecraft communicator ( CAPCOM ); Chief, Operational Safety, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D. C .; Chief, Astronaut Training ; and a member of the Orbiter Configuration Control Board and the Space Shuttle Program Control Board.

He served as a member of the launch support team at Kennedy Space Center for the STS-1, STS-2, and STS-3 missions.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.