OTD…July 16 and Apollo 11

#OTD in 2012…Kennedy Space Center bid final farewell to Endeavour

The flight of Gemini 4 launched today in 1965 for NASA’s first Extra Vehicular Activity spacewalk by Ed White on a four-day orbital mission with commander Jim McDivitt.

#OTD in 2000…Atlantis launched on a mission to make the International Space Station a home in orbit