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40 Years Ago: STS-51C, the First Dedicated Department of Defense Shuttle Mission


On Jan. 24, 1985, space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on STS-51C, the first space shuttle mission entirely

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