On this date: March 8

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

#OTD in 1983…Challenger lifts off on the first nighttime shuttle launch…and Discovery launches on her inaugural Spaceflight

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