OTD…April 6 and STS-41C

#OTD in 2000…Atlantis launched on a mission to make the International Space Station a home in orbit

Studying the atmosphere as part of NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth was the objective of shuttle Atlantis’ STS-45 mission in March 1992.

OTD in 1969…The launch of Apollo 11 for the first human landing on the moon