OTD…April 19 and STS-100

America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.

#OTD in 2009…Endeavour launched to complete the Japanese segment of the International Space Station

#OTD…The maiden launch of shuttle Endeavour in 1992 to rescue the Intelsat 603 satellite