OTD…June 25 and STS-50

NASA’s Kepler planet-finder began its mission to discover Earth-like worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy today in 2009, successfully launching aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral.

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

#OTD…The first launch of Challenger in 1983 and Columbia’s shortened Spacelab mission in 1997