OTD…May 4 and STS-30

Today in 1971…The launch of Apollo 14 to Fra Mauro with Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell.

On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station

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