OTD…April 19 and STS-100

NASA’s Kepler planet-finder began its mission to discover Earth-like worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy today in 2009, successfully launching aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral.

#OTD in 1993…Endeavour launched with the first Spacehab module and retrieval of the European EURECA satellite

#OTD…Launch of Discovery in 1990 with the Hubble Space Telescope, our window on the universe!