OTD…Sept. 19 and Endeavour retirement

#OTD in 1993…Endeavour launched with the first Spacehab module and retrieval of the European EURECA satellite

Mankind’s first landing on the Moon and stepping foot on the lunar surface occurred today in 1969 by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

#OTD in 1994…Discovery launched to develop new techniques for monitoring Earth’s environment from space…and in 2006…Construction of the space station resumed as Atlantis delivered a power-generating truss