OTD…June 8 and STS-117

#OTD…Launch of Endeavour in 2001 to deliver Canadarm2 to the space station

#OTD in 1994, the launch of Columbia on the STS-62 microgravity research mission

America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.