OTD…April 8 launches of STS-56 and 110

#OTD in 1989…Columbia launched with a classified communications satellite for the Defense Department

Today in 1996…The launch of Columbia and the ill-fated Tethered Satellite System. Watch the liftoff:

#OTD…Gamma Ray Observatory launched in 1991 on Atlantis and Discovery’s 2010 ISS flight