On This Date…March 1

#OTD in 1997…Cassini was launched on its billion-mile trek to Saturn

Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific today in 1969, fulfilling President Kennedy’s challenge to a nation of landing a man to the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.

#OTD in 1997…Atlantis launched on the seventh joint docking mission with Russia’s space station Mir