OTD…June 17 and STS-51G

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

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

#OTD in 1992…Atlantis launched to test the Tethered Satellite System