OTD…June 2 and STS-91

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

#OTD in 1989…Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter and in 1993…Columbia launched on a life sciences Spacelab flight