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Six were made, but only five ever went into space.
All of them except Space Shuttle Challenger
The first space shuttle, known as Columbia, went into space on April 12, 1981. It was the inaugural flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program.
Sunita Williams went into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
The first American space shuttle, Columbia, went into space on April 12, 1981.