OTD…Aug. 18 and STS-68 abort

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

#OTD in 2000…Discovery launched on the 100th space shuttle mission

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