OTD…Sept. 16 and STS-79

On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station

#OTD in 1989…Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter and in 1993…Columbia launched on a life sciences Spacelab flight

#OTD in 1982 the 3rd launch of the space shuttle and in 1996 the 3rd Mir docking missioN