OTD…Sept. 8 and STS-106

#OTD in 1983…Challenger lifts off on the first nighttime shuttle launch…and Discovery launches on her inaugural Spaceflight

Today in 1971…The launch of Apollo 14 to Fra Mauro with Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell.

#OTD in 1993…Endeavour launched with the first Spacehab module and retrieval of the European EURECA satellite