OTD…July 15 and STS-127

#OTD in 1994…Columbia launched on a Spacelab microgravity flight

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

Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific today in 1969, fulfilling President Kennedy’s challenge to a nation of landing a man to the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.