OTD…July 12 and STS-104

#OTD in 2001, Discovery launched on STS-102 to exchange crews aboard the International Space Station

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.

American and Soviet crews were launched today in 1975 for the first handshakes in space between the two superpowers as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.