OTD…April 6 and STS-41C

NASA’s first space station — the Skylab orbital workshop — was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.

#OTD in 1990…Discovery launched the Ulysses probe bound for the sun

#OTD…The first launch of Challenger in 1983 and Columbia’s shortened Spacelab mission in 1997