OTD…April 9 and STS-59

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

#OTD in 1990…Columbia launched to retrieve NASA’s Long duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) on the longest Shuttle flight to date.

#OTD in 1990…Discovery launched the Ulysses probe bound for the sun