OTD…April 5 launches of STS-37 and 131

#OTD in 2009…Discovery launches on her silver anniversary mission

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

Today in 1969, the launch of Apollo 9 and the first manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit.