OTD…Aug. 18 and STS-68 abort

#OTD in 1997…Columbia launched on the reflight of her shortened Microgravity Science Laboratory mission

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

#OTD in 1995…Columbia launched on a microgravity science Spacelab flight