The first fully functional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle" id="mwAS4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Space Shuttle">Space Shuttle</a> orbiter, <i id="mwAS8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Space Shuttle Columbia">Columbia</a></i>, is delivered to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Space_Center" id="mwATE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John F. Kennedy Space Center">John F. Kennedy Space Center</a> to be prepared for its first launch.