Maiden Voyage ship-reprints "It was a deacon's car

"It was a deacon's car

bathed in a spotlight

battled soda machines

President Hoover pressed a button

bound for the Bronx and then for incineration

Maiden Voyage ship-reprints "It was a deacon's carIn April 1981, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in the first voyage undertaken by a reusable spacecraft. The shuttle's passengers, astronauts John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen, were the first American astronauts to go to space in nearly 6 years. During the ascent, Robert's heart rate jumped to 130 beats per minute. "That was one fantastic ride! I highly recommend it," he said later. To take this photo, our