Spaceflight Now: Orbiter Overhaul
The first landing at White Sands

SPACEFLIGHT NOW DIGITAL VIDEO
Posted: April 12, 2000

Space shuttle Columbia makes the first, and so far only, landing at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. The touchdown on March 30, 1982 completed the third space shuttle mission. Source video: NASA TV (225k, 32sec QuickTime file).

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