OTD…Aug. 18 and STS-68 abort

25 years ago this afternoon, Hubble was deployed from shuttle Discovery

Studying the atmosphere as part of NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth was the objective of shuttle Atlantis’ STS-45 mission in March 1992.

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