OTD…July 26 and STS-114

#OTD in 1995…Endeavour launched to deploy and retrieve solar satellite and Wake Shield Facility

#OTD in 2001…Atlantis launched the Quest airlock module to the International Space Station

America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.