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November 12, 2011

A Look Back At STS-2 Launch Day, Part 1

I WAS THERE … Only this time I was closer.

Excitement concerning STS-2, the second launch America's space shuttle, was at a similar pitch in the second week of November, 1981. Yet that excitement came with a different tone. Now, although most of America- indeed most of the world- knew that there was a space shuttle but, most folks still didn't really know how it worked or what it was all about.

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