OTD…July 12 and STS-104

The first crew to inhabit Skylab — Conrad, Weitz and Kerwin — launched today in 1973 for a 28-day mission that successfully made critical repairs, brought the station into operation and conducted solar astronomy, Earth resources and medical experiments.

#OTD…Launch of Atlantis in 1989 to send the Magellan space probe to Venus

US-French-Saudi crew launched aboard Discovery with a multi-satellite payload