OTD…July 23 and STS-93

Dave Scott, Jim Irwin and Al Worden left for the Moon today in 1971 aboard Apollo 15 bound for Hadley rille with the first Lunar Roving Vehicle.

#OTD in 2002…Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station’s truss backbone

#OTD in 1992…Discovery launched with the first International Microgravity Laboratory.