OTD…June 8 and STS-117

#OTD in 1997…Atlantis launched on the seventh joint docking mission with Russia’s space station Mir

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

#OTD…in 1996, Atlantis launched to Russia’s space station Mir