OTD…Sept. 25 and STS-86

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

#OTD in 2000…Atlantis launched on a mission to make the International Space Station a home in orbit

#OTD in 1990…Columbia launched to retrieve NASA’s Long duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) on the longest Shuttle flight to date.