After years and years of constant preparation, NASA has announced its first Space Shuttle Mission: STS-1A! Space Shuttle Columbia, the first in a planned fleet of spacecraft in the nation's Space Transportation System, will liftoff on its first orbital test flight on 12 April 1978. The crew will consist of a CDR and PLT, both veterans of previous NASA space programs.
Columbia will have no payloads in the payload bay on this first orbital flight, but will carry instrumentation for measuring...

Five and a half hours ago, GTS-3 ended with the safe landing of the Delta Glider Columbia.
It was the first flight of the Delta Glider carrying a payload, the MTKS-SAT, a communications sattelite. It orbited the Earth 119 times, covering a distance of 3529575 miles. Included an EVA to activate the sattelite.

The following are the reports on the Ascent, MTKS-SAT/EVA deployment and De-Orbit/Re-entry portions of the mission.

Ascent
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