{"id":728150,"date":"2022-06-28T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=728150"},"modified":"2022-06-28T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:00:00","slug":"40-years-ago-sts-4-columbias-final-orbital-flight-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=728150","title":{"rendered":"40 Years Ago: STS-4, Columbia\u2019s Final Orbital Flight Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on June 27, 1982, to begin its fourth trip into space. Astronauts Thomas K. \u201cTK\u201d Mattingly and Henry W. \u201cHank\u201d Hartsfield rode the reusable spacecraft on a pillar of fire from Launch Pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/40-years-ago-sts-4-columbia-s-final-orbital-flight-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">40 Years Ago: STS-4, Columbia\u2019s Final Orbital Flight Test<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Johnson Space Center&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on June 27, 1982, to begin its fourth trip into space. Astronauts Thomas K. \u201cTK\u201d Mattingly and Henry W. \u201cHank\u201d Hartsfield rode the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}