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Shuttle opens new era in space exploration
Patrick Young reports on the American return to space with the Space Shuttle Columbia. The launch echoes Yuri Gagarin's first flight on the 1961 anniversary and signals a new era in U S space exploration with NASA asserting long term reusability will lower costs after a costly, ambitious program.
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Patrick Young
Newhouse
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Yuri Gagarin
John Young
Robert Cripper
Ture
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Aerospace Industry
Reagan
Young
Crippen
Launch Control
Earth
George F. Page
NASA
Shuttle
America
Columbia
Gagarin
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Shepard
United States
Russia
Sputnik
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Defense
Harold Brown
Congress
Daytona
U.S
Mercury
Gemini
Space