OTD…July 12 and STS-104

NASA’s first space station — the Skylab orbital workshop — was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.

#OTD in 1985…Discovery launched to deploy three satellites and rendezvous with another for daring repair

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