OTD…April 24 and the birth of Hubble

#OTD…Launch of the first shuttle mission to service a satellite in space in 1984

#OTD in 1997…Discovery launched to deploy and later retrieve the CRISTA-SPAS atmospheric research satellite

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