OTD…Aug. 18 and STS-68 abort

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched today in 1969 aboard Apollo 11 for one of the defining moments of the 20th century — man’s first landing on the moon.

US-French-Saudi crew launched aboard Discovery with a multi-satellite payload

#OTD…Launch of Columbia in 1993 on the second flight of the German Spacelab