OTD…July 1 and STS-94

America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.

#OTD in 2000…Discovery launched on the 100th space shuttle mission

#OTD in 2000…Atlantis launched on a mission to make the International Space Station a home in orbit