OTD…Aug. 2 and STS-43

#OTD in 1989…Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter and in 1993…Columbia launched on a life sciences Spacelab flight

#OTD in 1997…Discovery launched to deploy and later retrieve the CRISTA-SPAS atmospheric research satellite

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