OTD…Sept. 16 and STS-79

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched today in 1969 aboard Apollo 11 for one of the defining moments of the 20th century — man’s first landing on the moon.

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

#OTD in 1997…Columbia launched on the reflight of her shortened Microgravity Science Laboratory mission