OTD…March 22 and STS-3 and STS-76

Apollo 16 launched to the Descartes Highlands of the moon on this day in 1972 with John Young, Charlie Duke and Ken Mattingly.

#OTD in 2002…Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station’s truss backbone

#OTD in 2009…Endeavour launched to complete the Japanese segment of the International Space Station