Flight of STS-2 With Astronauts Colonel Joe Engle and Captain Richard Truly. Hearing Before The Committee On Science and Technology U.S. House of Representatives. Ninety-Seventh Congress. First Session December 9, 1981
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982. Softcover, staple binding. 30 pp. Black and white photos. A hearing to discuss the successful flight of the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia and to honor its astronauts.
STS-2 was the second Space Shuttle mission conducted by NASA, and the second flight of the orbiter Columbia. The mission, crewed by Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly, launched on November 12, 1981, and landed two days later on November 14, 1981. STS-2 marked the first time that a crewed, reusable orbital vehicle returned to space. This mission tested the Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR) as part of the OSTA-1 (Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications) payload, along with a wide range of other experiments including the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System, commonly known as Canadarm. Fine. Item #688
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