When was the space shuttle invented?
The space shuttle program was initiated on January 5, 1972 with President Nixon’s announcement that NASA would begin development on a manned reusable space shuttle system. The first complete orbiter, Enterprise, was completed on September 17, 1976. The first fully functional space shuttle, Columbia, was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center on March 25, 1979. Columbia’s first launch was on April 12, 1981.
