On This Date…March 1

#OTD in 1993…Endeavour launched with the first Spacehab module and retrieval of the European EURECA satellite

#OTD in 1997…Discovery launched to deploy and later retrieve the CRISTA-SPAS atmospheric research satellite

Studying the atmosphere as part of NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth was the objective of shuttle Atlantis’ STS-45 mission in March 1992.