On This Date…March 13 and STS-29

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

#OTD in 1994…Discovery launched to develop new techniques for monitoring Earth’s environment from space…and in 2006…Construction of the space station resumed as Atlantis delivered a power-generating truss

#OTD in 2001…Discovery launched on an International Space Station crew exchange mission