Space Shuttle Columbia landing on Rogers dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> after the completion of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/STS-1" title="STS-1">STS-1</a>, the first shuttle mission. Reentry of the shuttle occurs above the speed of sound and causes a sonic boom which can be heard over the entire Antelope Valley.
NASA Johnson Space Center, Photo number: EC81-15104, also S81-30746
1981-04-14
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