OTD…Aug. 2 and STS-43

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.

#OTD in 1989…Columbia launched with a classified communications satellite for the Defense Department

#OTD…Launch of a 1993 environmental mission on Discovery and Atlantis’ ISS flight in 2002