OTD…June 8 and STS-117

Apollo 16 launched to the Descartes Highlands of the moon on this day in 1972 with John Young, Charlie Duke and Ken Mattingly.

#OTD…Launch of a 1994 Space Radar Lab mission on Endeavour

#OTD in 1993…Endeavour launched with the first Spacehab module and retrieval of the European EURECA satellite