On This Date…Feb. 28

#OTD…Launch of Discovery in 1990 with the Hubble Space Telescope, our window on the universe!

Dave Scott, Jim Irwin and Al Worden left for the Moon today in 1971 aboard Apollo 15 bound for Hadley rille with the first Lunar Roving Vehicle.

#OTD…Launch of a 1993 environmental mission on Discovery and Atlantis’ ISS flight in 2002