OTD…June 17 and STS-51G

Dave Scott, Jim Irwin and Al Worden left for the Moon today in 1971 aboard Apollo 15 bound for Hadley rille with the first Lunar Roving Vehicle.

#OTD in 2000…Atlantis launched on a mission to make the International Space Station a home in orbit

#OTD in 1988…Discovery returned Americans to space after the Challenger accident