OTD…July 13 and STS-70

OTD in 1969…The launch of Apollo 11 for the first human landing on the moon

#OTD in 1985…Discovery launched on the first classified space shuttle mission for the Department of Defense. Watch the liftoff:

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