OTD…Aug. 10 and STS-105

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

NASA’s first space station — the Skylab orbital workshop — was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.

#OTD in 1982…Columbia launches on the fourth space shuttle mission. #OTD in 1995…Atlantis launches on first shuttle-Mir docking flight