OTD…June 25 and STS-50

#OTD in 1983…Challenger lifts off on the first nighttime shuttle launch…and Discovery launches on her inaugural Spaceflight

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

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