OTD…July 1 and STS-94

#OTD in 2001…Atlantis launched the Quest airlock module to the International Space Station

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

#OTD in 2007…NASA’s Dawn probe launched to explore the uncharted worlds of Vesta and Ceres in the heart of the asteroid belt.