[SamAdams76]

Thank you for the 20-year bump. Hard to believe a fifth of a century has passed since.

I remember that morning like it was not that long ago.

[21twelve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zaaCgiIP7A&t=66s

The band RUSH did a song with Columbia as part of the story (just a normal launch years before). The video shows “improved” video of Columbia’s maiden launch in 1981.

“Excitement so thick
You could cut it with a knife
Technology high, on the leading edge of life...”

The song incorporates some of the radio traffic to and from the shuttle.