{"id":8770,"date":"2026-11-12T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8770"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:43:54","slug":"columbia-sts-2-was-launched-in-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8770","title":{"rendered":"Columbia STS-2 Was Launched in 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Columbia STS-2<\/i> was launched in 1981<\/strong>. It was the first space vehicle launched for a second time. Eventually 134 <em>STS<\/em> missions took place before the program ended in 2011. Children could view a list of all the STS missions at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/natural-hazards\/earthquake-hazards\/science\/m58-august-23-2011-mineral-virginia?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects\">STS Missions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia STS-2 was launched in 1981. It was the first space vehicle launched for a second time. Eventually 134 STS missions took place before the program ended in 2011. Children could view a list of all the STS missions at: STS Missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5810,3869,6012],"class_list":["post-8770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5810","tag-columbia-sts-2","tag-november-12","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23507,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions\/23507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}