On This Date…Feb. 28

#OTD in 1989, Discovery launched a new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

#OTD…The first launch of Challenger in 1983 and Columbia’s shortened Spacelab mission in 1997

America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.