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 2000…Atlantis launched on a mission to make the International Space Station a home in orbit

#OTD in 2007…The launch of Atlantis with a power truss for International Space Station