It Was 20 Years Ago Today...

摘要

Ted Sasseen remembers April 14,1981, vividly. That was the day the space shuttle Columbia returned from its shakedown cruise with veteran astronaut John Young at the controls. "John bounced it a little bit, but it was really, really good for the first time anybody ever landed that thing," recalls Sasseen, who was Kennedy Space Center's chief shuttle engineer at the time and is now retired. "He ran down the ladder, hopped and jumped around—man, he had found a great new toy and he knew it."