Facts/History of Columbia Shuttle:

• This voyage was its 28th trip into orbit.
   

• The shuttle weighed about 178,000 pounds with the main engines installed.
   

• The Columbia was the first to enter the Earth's orbit in 1981.
   

• It is named after the Boston, Massachusetts based sloop
   

• Construction for the shuttle started in 1975
   

• It was the first shuttle to fly after the flight of Enterprise in April 1981
   

• It was the world’s first reusable space vehicle
   

• It was the first to enter Earth’s orbit in April 12, 1981 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. They orbited the earth for 2 days and flew more than one million miles
   

• The Last mission that the Columbia Shuttle went on was from March 1^st to 12^th, 2002, to service the Hubble Space Telescope.