On This Day… Endeavour Launches on ASTRO-2 Mission

#OTD in 1992…Columbia launches on the first Extended Duration Orbiter mission

#OTD in 1989…Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter and in 1993…Columbia launched on a life sciences Spacelab flight

American and Soviet crews were launched today in 1975 for the first handshakes in space between the two superpowers as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.