OTD…June 5 and STS-40

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 1991…Atlantis launched another of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites

#OTD in 1990…Columbia launched to retrieve NASA’s Long duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) on the longest Shuttle flight to date.