OTD…Aug. 28 and STS-128

#OTD in 2007…Discovery launched Harmony as the gateway to future international science laboratories

#OTD…Launch of Atlantis in 1989 to send the Magellan space probe to Venus

Mankind’s first landing on the Moon and stepping foot on the lunar surface occurred today in 1969 by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.