OTD…Aug. 2 and STS-43

#OTD in 1999…Columbia launched with the first woman commander and the Chandra X-ray Observatory

#OTD in 1997…Cassini was launched on its billion-mile trek to Saturn

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.