OTD…April 8 launches of STS-56 and 110

#OTD in 1989, Discovery launched a new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

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.

#OTD in 1994…Columbia launched on a Spacelab microgravity flight