OTD…Sept. 12 and STS-48, 47 and 51

#OTD in 1995…Endeavour launched to deploy and retrieve solar satellite and Wake Shield Facility

The first crew to inhabit Skylab — Conrad, Weitz and Kerwin — launched today in 1973 for a 28-day mission that successfully made critical repairs, brought the station into operation and conducted solar astronomy, Earth resources and medical experiments.

#OTD…Launch of the first shuttle mission to service a satellite in space in 1984