OTD…Sept. 16 and STS-79

NASA’s first space station — the Skylab orbital workshop — was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.

#OTD in 2000…Discovery launched on the 100th space shuttle mission

Today in 1996…The launch of Columbia and the ill-fated Tethered Satellite System. Watch the liftoff: