OTD…Sept. 16 and STS-79

#OTD in 2009, shuttle Discovery delivers power payload to space station.

American and Soviet crews were launched today in 1975 for the first handshakes in space between the two superpowers as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

As a dress rehearsal mission for the moon landing, Apollo 10 launched today in 1969 with Cernan, Young and Stafford