OTD…April 8 launches of STS-56 and 110

#OTD in 2001…Atlantis launched the Quest airlock module to the International Space Station

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

The flight of Gemini 4 launched today in 1965 for NASA’s first Extra Vehicular Activity spacewalk by Ed White on a four-day orbital mission with commander Jim McDivitt.