OTD…April 8 launches of STS-56 and 110

#OTD in 1989…Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter and in 1993…Columbia launched on a life sciences Spacelab flight

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.

A mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope blasted off on this date in 2002.