OTD…June 20 and STS-78 and NROL-38

Today in 1996…The launch of Columbia and the ill-fated Tethered Satellite System. Watch the liftoff:

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 1985…Atlantis launched on her maiden voyage as a new orbiter joined the shuttle fleet