OTD…Aug. 18 and STS-68 abort

#OTD in 2007…Discovery launched Harmony as the gateway to future international science laboratories

Dave Scott, Jim Irwin and Al Worden left for the Moon today in 1971 aboard Apollo 15 bound for Hadley rille with the first Lunar Roving Vehicle.

#OTD in 2000…Atlantis launched on a mission to make the International Space Station a home in orbit