OTD…Aug. 28 and STS-128

#OTD in 1985…Discovery launched on the first classified space shuttle mission for the Department of Defense. Watch the liftoff:

#OTD in 1989…Columbia launched with a classified communications satellite for the Defense Department

As a dress rehearsal mission for the moon landing, Apollo 10 launched today in 1969 with Cernan, Young and Stafford