OTD…Sept. 8 and STS-106

#OTD…Launch of Challenger in 1985 on a Spacelab research flight

Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific today in 1969, fulfilling President Kennedy’s challenge to a nation of landing a man to the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.

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