OTD…April 24 and the birth of Hubble

#OTD in 1985…Atlantis launched on her maiden voyage as a new orbiter joined the shuttle fleet

Studying the atmosphere as part of NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth was the objective of shuttle Atlantis’ STS-45 mission in March 1992.

#OTD in 1994…Discovery launched to develop new techniques for monitoring Earth’s environment from space…and in 2006…Construction of the space station resumed as Atlantis delivered a power-generating truss