On This Date…March 13 and STS-29

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

#OTD in 2001, Discovery launched on STS-102 to exchange crews aboard the International Space Station

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.