/PRNewswire/ American Public University System (APUS) and the Policy Studies Organization (PSO) will host the third annual Space Education and Strategic.
california. touchdown. roll three is ready. eighteen months later, columbia s first operational mission deploys two commercial satellites into space. in 1983 a second shuttle join nasa s fleet. lit i haveoff of the orr litter challenger and the six t flight of the space shuttle. challenger s maiden voyage marking the first shot. got a good shot of mother earth behind you. challenger later carries the first woman into orbit and the first african-american. in the mid 80s the shuttle program continues to grow. the first flight of the discovery. with the addition of the shuttles discovery and atlantis. and liftoff of the space shuttle atlantis on a mission that will herald a new day of international cooperation in space. atlantis later pioneers the shuttle mir missions docking a total of seven times with the russian space station. then on january 28th, 1986,