Space Exploration
- April 12 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
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Famous quotes containing the words space and/or exploration:
“It is not through space that I must seek my dignity, but through the management of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)