On This Date…Feb. 28

NASA’s first space station — the Skylab orbital workshop — was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.

#OTD in 1999…Columbia launched with the first woman commander and the Chandra X-ray Observatory

On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station